It is real tough to get lumber these days that isn't warped, cracked or otherwise not what you want. In my town the best lumber can be had from a local small lumber yard versus the local Lowes or Home Depot. This especially holds true for 2 by lumber.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:12 PM To: Blind Handyman List Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Check your lumber. I had asked a buddy of mine to give me a hand picking out the lumber for the basement stairs, and helping me get it home. I asked him to carefully check the boards for integrity, are they straight, are they checked at the ends. He assured me that we got some beautiful boards. When I cut that first little registration chunk, about 1.5 inches long, off the end of one of the 2X10 boards, it literally fell in half, a split running right through it. So, I cut another 1.5 inches. It fell in half. So, I cut a third 1.5 inches. That one didn't fall in half, but when I picked it up and flexed it slightly, it broke in half. The fourth chunk wouldn't break in my hands, but I can kind of feel the split in it. So, hopefully after six inches of my board are gone, I might actually have some usable lumber. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
