Pak Lah. At Kampong Penchala. Malay house outside but traditional English design inside. I did the timber flooring inside. All using American Walnut. Other contractors did the plaster ceiling,  wall paneling and kitchen.

if you have money, why not?

good timber is expensive, very expensive

one of the more impressive timber structure in Malaysia is at karambunai nexus resot in sabah.

Ya. Fully sponsored by a developer for winning GE12.

Really so durable that old house wood still can be used?

I only heard of ppl using old boats’ wood for building though.

belian wood. v hard to get. is super tough wood. if u wan cantik cantik kind of wood. cant use it. structure can la. v hard to carve. and termite proof. so far have not seen any termintes at the my wood tho.

King of the wood is chengal lor, if I am not wrong

Owh.. But chengal is very hard and durable d.. It is very expensive to even build them as dining table..

what reason its called king of wood?

just because it can tahan? thats not enough criteria to be called king.

why belian so hard to get?  its a pretty featureless wood.. maybe people dont bother using it..thats all. 

u dont know about wood but you can assure its special wood. 

do you even do carpentry?

wel except its not ferrari price in wood world . its not even more than burmese teak price. lol. dont simply shiok sendiri declare belian as king of woods.  u wan how many tans of belian timber. can order for you.

yea so you just listen to some one told u but you dont know market price is not expensive so you believe him.
so now u know its not ferarri of wood world. you can update the information.

i also hope so la i got some in the wood storage rack. if can be ferarri, i can charge my customer 10k for the next shelf i make out of it.

agarwood dun have. thats expensive stuff if the correct batch produce the oils.

belian is one of the hardest wood

there is a list lol

https://www.hitchcockandking.co.uk/h-k-news...st-woods-world/

Of the list, I am only familiar with lignum vitae and snakewood.
The former is so hard that even tools will be blunt, so I don't think it is realistic to be used to build house, snakewood at least in bows used in violin is hard but brittle.

I think the point is the wood should be hard enough is enough, more importantly is cost and workability.

kampung style
not true traditional
those tukang that are capable of building true traditional houses like without nail are very rare
will not be surprise if they asked 300 ringgit or more per day
potato quality

Both superb durable and no study research to prove which is tougher and durable. But if i were to pick. Belian Wood for the win easily. Belian wood is crowned as borneo king of the wood (ironwood). All panjang Dayak house structure made with belian woods still standing strong today that last few generations. Fun fact It takes 120 years to grow 30cm diameter.

https://www.frim.gov.my/colour-of-frim/eusi.../cv0/ab88/pt357

Owning a piece of Belian wood (Long table) is consider very luxury in Sarawak. Belian = Berlian = Diamond





Wanna show some of my collection Belian Wood. Owning belian wood mean last forever. Above piece (left) is believed nearly 200 years old belian wood. It was excavate under ground earth. That's why the grain is deep. Belian wood is getting scarcity nowdays. Usually pass down by older generation.