06-08-2020, 07:18 PM
Ever been to Lowes to find..say..20 16 foot treated 2x12s? You'll have to dig through 50 of them to find 5 without knots, bends, twists, cupping and so forth not to mention almost every board comes directly from the treatment facilities so they're dripping wet and heavy as hell.
We buy decking from a real lumber yard where everything is outside and covered so air can circulate and customers aren't digging around the trash boards for one decent board out of 50.
We recently built a deck for a customer and had it all delivered. Every board was dead flat, straight and nearly knot free. You'll never find that at the box stores stores. So we buy from a locally owned and family operated business who has a reputation to maintain with builders instead of every Tom, Dick and Harry with a circular saw in their garage.
Box stores are ok for a one time item of convenience, a box of screws, a cheap ass shovel and such and the occasional sale items and maybe a few 2x's if you're feeling lucky, but I damned sure wouldn't buy a whole house full of lumber from one. Not now and not ever..
We buy decking from a real lumber yard where everything is outside and covered so air can circulate and customers aren't digging around the trash boards for one decent board out of 50.
We recently built a deck for a customer and had it all delivered. Every board was dead flat, straight and nearly knot free. You'll never find that at the box stores stores. So we buy from a locally owned and family operated business who has a reputation to maintain with builders instead of every Tom, Dick and Harry with a circular saw in their garage.
Box stores are ok for a one time item of convenience, a box of screws, a cheap ass shovel and such and the occasional sale items and maybe a few 2x's if you're feeling lucky, but I damned sure wouldn't buy a whole house full of lumber from one. Not now and not ever..
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.