Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5

• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These were bought at the same time and are both 2x10 installed a couple days ago.

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  Over 3/8 of an inch and they both still need to dry.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think if I was you I’d go have a talk with your sawyer, talk about “man if I wanted my wood this wet I wouldn’t have broken up with Meagan. Is your kiln in working order?”

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      9-3/8 is spec, the hell you talking about?

      You are just off on the amount that the wood can shrink from being rough sawn at 2” to final delivery. If one board came from a mill on a humid area, it would shrink less before milling meaning it will shrink more onsite, if the board comes from an arid region, it’s already shrunk lots before being milled. So won’t continue to shrink more.

      This is the reason why you can’t predict the milled measurements and they use nominal sizes….

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Okay, are we talking about “boards sold as 2x10s might vary in width from board to board?” Because I took you to mean that a given dried and milled 2x10 might move up to an inch, which it had better fucking not. Because yeah, the likes of Georgia Pacific are going to be a bit sloppy with the final dimensions of 2x10s, because it rarely matters that much for what that board is going to be used for.

        I’m a woodworker, I buy rough sawn lumber dried over a period of months, I shop dry it for a couple weeks then mill it myself. I can predict with a fair degree of accuracy how much it will move.

        A sawyer is an occupational term for a person who operates a sawmill. My sawyer’s name is Bill.

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