One of my local lumber yards just got bought by a much larger company, and I'm wondering if an experience I just had is actually common practice or not.
This place exclusively has surfaced wood and it has the number of board feet chalked on each piece. I needed just a couple small pieces of walnut, and they were each marked as 5 board feet. However, they looked small to me, so I measured them, and each one measured 7 feet long, and 6-6.5 inches wide.
Now, by my math, that equals 3.5-3.8 board feet per board. They did lower it to 4 bf per piece when I asked, but today when I picked up another piece, they gave me a harder time, saying that it was common practice to charge for the wood that had been there before surfacing and cutting. (They did change it after measuring again).
Now: IS this common practice? With walnut over $10 bf here, they would have charged me over $30 more than what I actually got. This experience has left me with a really bad taste in my mouth, and I want to know if that's justified or if I need to just get over it.
EDIT: So far, the consensus seems to be that this practice isn't common, and is deceptive/shady/sketchy/etc. I've already decided that I'll be going to my other yard (where they still know me and like me) for everything; now I'm just trying to decide if I should leave a review warning others to bring their tape measures.
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Also of course a wood working guild or center I could join to gain access to some industrial grade equipment like a planer?
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It was chipped.
I'm a hobbyist woodworker.
Where can I buy some walnut, cherry, maple?
Lowe's and home Depot have some poplar and oak but I'm looking to branch out into other species
Is this something I'd have to travel for?
If this isn't the place to ask, sorry. I'm just getting in to woodworking and I'm looking for lumber yards that are patient with someone new. I've googled and found local yards, but I'm hoping someone has some experience and specific recommendations.
Thanks.
Hi,
I hired a contractor that chared me lots of money and did not do the work,
I called the lumber yard and they refused to tell me if the contractor paid for the lumber.
what legal action can I take to know if my house is not going to have a lean against it?
Ran out of money and my house in open to the weather :(
I wont want another 30k payment worth of lumber
thanks for the help
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Hello all,
Trying to find a quality lumber yard in the Huntsville AL area of surrounding area. Would rather help out a local business than a big box store. Any recommendations?
Thanks!
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I get the concept of BF, but how to compute it when the piece can have a changing width? Just trust the lumber folks?
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