price of timber uk

[dave johnson]

Could anyone tell me if 175 pounds+vat per cubic metre for 1" by 8" pse redwood sixths is good . tia.

[Andy Jeffries]

Planed Square Edged (also known as PAR, Planed All Round).

Cheers,

Andy

[Mike Hide]

OK, now "sixths" ????

-- mike hide

[Mike Hide]

One other thing are we talking California Redwood ,or some kind of red wood either natural of stained ???

-- mike hide

[dave johnson]

european redwood ,from scandinavia- pinus sylvestris, I think as opposed to whitewood or yellow pine. Importers in north uk dont seem to deal in any exotics . All pine furniture seems to be made of it nowadays.

[dave johnson]

sixths is the cheapest grade , fifths is next up and costs about 50 quid more, the better grades are sold as unsorted (think of it as being not relegated to the lower categories)

[Frank McVey]

Hi Dave,

I usually reckon to pay 105 pounds ex VAT per 100 metres of 50 x 75 mm redwood (ie 3" x 2") sorted 5ths (ie 1.05 per metre) from Travis Perkins. I reckon there's about 280 metres of that stuff in a cubic metre, which would be about 300 quid at TP prices.

Seems pretty cheap if it's straight and not too badly knotted.

Of course, you'd probably get selected walnut for that price in the US! :))

Cheers

Frank

[vmtw]

For the UK Timber Prices try the following links

1) TGA (Timber Growers Association) [e-mail] 2) Beacon Forestry Timber Marketing - [e-mail]

A few other links to consider

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