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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
- Thread starter mimico_polak
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That’s very interiory designy! I will pass that idea by the wife!
Specs suggest that goes up 10”.
Didnt see the specs. Similar tv tray table may work. Adjustable height but will probably need to be cut down a couple of inches. Leaves the bottom open like you want. Probably find one kijiji for next to nothing
sburns
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Thats what I was going for! Lol!
You had the idea, I conceptualized it, now @jc100 needs to make it happen and update with a picture of the reality.
sburns
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I’m trying to find a source of cedar logs otherwise I have this horrible feeling I’ll get over run with carpenter ants or something.
Build onto my next question....where does one get wood outside of Home Depot / RONA / LOWEs etc?
My buddy bought his board and batten up at a mill in Musoka Lumber...but that's a hell of a trek for bringing some boards back home.
Also...pine or cedar for board and batten? He got pine, but I read there's the possibility of warping and bugs that is higher with boards that are NOT cedar.
My buddy bought his board and batten up at a mill in Musoka Lumber...but that's a hell of a trek for bringing some boards back home.
Also...pine or cedar for board and batten? He got pine, but I read there's the possibility of warping and bugs that is higher with boards that are NOT cedar.
FWIW my step father built a deck out of spruce 2X4s and stained it that redwood colour, replaced it after five years.
Vertical with a great stain (eg sikkens) it has a fighting chance. Laying flat the lifespan is short.
OK so spruce bad for longevity...
Sometimes I buy oversized lumber and rip it down. The bigger stuff I figure comes from a more stable part of the tree. It still warps as stresses release.
1X2 strapping is a joke. T&G on the little stuff.
All wood siding looks like poo after a few years I can set you up with a Mennonite sawmill if you want some.
Sent from the future
Hardie t+g is one and done but pricey.
mennonite home mills ( there are about 100 within a 50 mile circle of kitchener) do not use graded lumber and drying is very skeechy at best, There are several large producers like Townsend but many are not small project friendly .
@daught , you live where the lumber is cut , its too fresh off your shelf , we air dry it on railcars coming east.
@Mimico , cedar is about 15X the price of pine product. Some smaller producers are using eastern white cedar , at that point just use pine.
Large scale wood siding producers , Fraser and CapeCod use a very specific pine tree , for stability and natural resin content . ( I hate Maibec for a variety of reasons ) . Mimico, the siding yoiur wife favours will have a back cut to minimize cupping. You can buy unfinished siding , you will not save a nickle and pre finished is done on a large automated machine at the plant under perfect conditions. You cannot match that in your yard.
I've got 10 yr old Faser wood board and batten on a project, its just fine.
Hardie also has a board and batten. Installed, done for decades,,,,,,
@daught , you live where the lumber is cut , its too fresh off your shelf , we air dry it on railcars coming east.
@Mimico , cedar is about 15X the price of pine product. Some smaller producers are using eastern white cedar , at that point just use pine.
Large scale wood siding producers , Fraser and CapeCod use a very specific pine tree , for stability and natural resin content . ( I hate Maibec for a variety of reasons ) . Mimico, the siding yoiur wife favours will have a back cut to minimize cupping. You can buy unfinished siding , you will not save a nickle and pre finished is done on a large automated machine at the plant under perfect conditions. You cannot match that in your yard.
I've got 10 yr old Faser wood board and batten on a project, its just fine.
Hardie also has a board and batten. Installed, done for decades,,,,,,
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