At Ted Todd we think it’s our responsibility to know exactly where our timber originates. If suppliers can’t prove where it comes from or that it has not been sourced in accordance with our strict environmental and ethical policy, we simply do not do business with them. We scrupulously check every wood we trade in to make sure it is not on the IUCN Red Data List (a list of tree species under threat of extinction). Plus, where ever possible we try and source independently verified FSC-certified of PEFC-certified flooring which we supply under our FSC certificate TT-COC-2154 and PEFC certificate BMT-PEFC-0229.

Some people in the trade are cynical – “it may be FSC but how can you prove it?”

An independent certification body goes to where the wood is grown and checks the forest management against strict environmental, social and economic criteria-and they keep visiting and checking-at least every year.

If the forest management passes, then they sell the wood as FSC-certified. Every stage from the forest until we sell to you the FSC-certified flooring is independently checked by a certification body.