We here at Mulqueen, Inc. have been members of Timber Products Inspection for over 10 years. Below is some information on their services. Please note that TP inspects both our lumber and our trusses. What ever company you use for your truss needs, please make sure it has an inspection company that inspects both lumber and trusses. Some companies have a truss inspection but their people are not qualified to inspect lumber. We are very proud to have an inspection company like TP working with us.
Timber Products Inspection, Inc. (TP) provides a comprehensive quality monitoring program to truss fabricators. This program places special emphasis on "in-plant" quality and process controls to assure that the finished products meet industry recognized standards. The effectiveness of the "in-plant" quality program is verified with unannounced inspections by TP personnel.
TP's Truss Program is accepted under the three national building codes as well as in local areas where special requirements on truss inspections are enforced, such as Houston, TX and South Florida. Unless local requirements specify otherwise, truss plants participating in the TP Quality Monitoring Program identify their products by applying a TP truss quality audited stamp.
TP also offers independent truss inspection on individual projects requiring certificates. All accepted material is identified by a TP inspector and, upon completion of the project, a certificate of continuous inspection is issued.
If your project requires factory built trusses, specify Timber Products Inspection to assure that your designs and specifications are met.
Timber Products Inspection. Inc., (TP), fills unique niches in the lumber industry. Of the twenty North American agencies currently approved by the American Lumber Standards Committee (ALSC), only TP has comprehensive approvals to provide services for all currently approved softwood and hardwood species, under all seven sets of ALSC approved grade rules. That capability, combined with distinctive human and technical assets in the wood preservation field, give TP a knowledge and service base second to none.
A service-oriented attitude and a worthy track record have generated TP's growth, since its origin in 1969, to the current status of being the third largest ALSC approved gradestamping entity. TP presently has the pleasure of servicing over 300 lumber gradestamping subscribers, whose total 1989 production represented 5.67 billion board feet, TP Subscribers accounted for 16.4% of the total USA production of lumber reported to the ALSC in 1989, and 34.5% of the total Southern Yellow Pines.
TP offers the following services on a national and international basis:
1 Gradestamping supervisory service for visually graded lumber, machine-stress rated lumber, and finger-jointed and laminated lumber.
2. Grader training, as well as special quality control orientation for personnel other than graders.
3. Mill surveys, kiln surveys, and technical assistance. in planer operations.
4. Yield studies on standard production or on runs of special commodities.
5. Grademarking and/or certification of lumber by our own staff at any location.
6. Reinspections.
7. Samples of lumber shipments for domestic sales or export at either the point of production or any other location.
8. Inspection of lumber in structures.
9. Inspection of lumber/timber for bridge construction or in bridges.
10. Inspection and consultation in cases involving litigation.
11. Truss inspection and pallet inspection programs.