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Hardwoods
About Hardwoods
The working part of Rutland sits in the northeast quarter of Kelowna, one of the city's largest residential areas and the one with a busy town centre strip of its own. Hardwoods keeps an address there at 2375 Norris Road South. The phone line is 250-491-7677, and there is a Kelowna page on the hardwoods-inc.com site.
The name points to the hardwood end of the building supply trade, where suppliers sell mainly to cabinet shops, millwork firms, finish carpenters and the occasional determined amateur. What they carry tends to run to solid hardwood in rough or surfaced form, veneered and melamine sheet goods, edgebanding, plywood, and the adhesives, hardware and finishing products that go alongside. Because so much is sold by the sheet or the board foot, the useful questions are practical: what is on the floor today, what has to come in on a truck, whether they will cut sheets down for transport, what the minimum order is, and whether they sell to the public or only to accounts. A phone call settles all of that faster than a drive.
Rutland fills the northeast quarter of the city, which puts an address here close to the trades working in Black Mountain and the newer subdivisions climbing toward the ridge. Sheet goods are awkward to move, so bring a vehicle that can take them and something to tie them down. Bring the cut list too, measure twice, and remember that solid wood needs time to settle in the room it will live in, particularly through an Okanagan summer when indoor humidity sits well below what a shop in a wetter climate would plan for.
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In the Rutland neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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