When you go to a timber mart to collect timber for your construction of a new house, how will you select good timber ?

Explanation

(i) Timber is mainly used for carpentry and building houses. In order to enrich the quanlity of timber, seasoning of wood is done.
(ii) Timber is the most important tissue that sequestrates atmospheric carbon and this reduces global warming.
(iii) In order to enrich the quality of timber, seasoning of wood is done through air and kiln drying. Wood is characterized by colour, grain, texture and figure.
(iv) We must check the wood whether the wood has been gone through the seasoning . Seasoning of wood is done through by two methods.
Air seasoning :
(i) It is the process in which the moisture can be removed without resorting artificial heat.
(ii) It increase the strength , the combustibility and renders the wood less subject to decay.
Kiln seasoning :
It is the process, the moisture can be removed by artificial method, using steam-heater chamber.
Also The wood is also classified into sap wood ( pale in colour) and heart wood (dark in colour) .
The timber from the heartwood is more durable and more resistant to the attack of microorganisms and insects than the timber from sap wood. So, i will select the heart wood which has been gone through the seasoning of wood for my construction of new house.