{"id":262,"date":"2026-05-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/2026\/05\/02\/uscarea-lemnului\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:40:30","slug":"wood-seasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/2026\/05\/02\/holztrocknung\/","title":{"rendered":"How long wood needs to dry \u2013 and to what moisture content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longest stage in a table's life comes before any work begins. A slab we deliver this year was cut four or five years ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Why this matters so much<\/h2>\n<p>Freshly cut wood has a moisture content of 60\u201380%. In a heated house, the relative humidity is 40\u201350%, which gives the wood an equilibrium moisture content of around 8\u201310%. Put an under-dried slab in your living room and it carries on losing water \u2013 it warps, it cracks and the joints give way. That isn't poor workmanship; it's physics.<\/p>\n<h2>How we dry our timber<\/h2>\n<p>First, natural air-drying, outdoors under a roof, with sticks between the planks so the air can circulate: two to three years, longer for thick slabs. Then in a room with controlled humidity, where we bring the moisture content down gradually to 8\u201310%. Rushing doesn't pay here: drying too fast causes internal cracks that only show up later.<\/p>\n<h2>What we measure<\/h2>\n<p>Every slab is checked with a moisture meter before we work on it and again before finishing. Only slabs within the target range of 8\u201310% go into production.<\/p>\n<h2>And once the table is in your home<\/h2>\n<p>Solid wood remains a living material: it \"breathes\" with the seasons, and its width changes by a few millimetres between winter and summer. That's normal. What isn't normal \u2013 warping, cracks that open up \u2013 only ever comes from badly dried wood.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first air-dry the wood, then season it under controlled conditions for 4\u20135 years until it reaches the right moisture content for a table that stays straight.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-produktion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissdesign-haag.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}