Needing one piece of timber fairly quickly and to avoid a time consuming journey via the traffic jam to my usual supplier I went to the local B&Q. I have never seen so much planed wood with so many knots and splits. I went through 5 packs before I found something just about acceptable. Other customer were loading up trolleys with multiple packs of the same quality without seeming to notice the defects under the shrink wrap.
B&Q quality of wood
Feb 20, 2016
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B&Q timber is great. If you want to build a boat - it's already bent to shape.
Wickes is better, or find an independent.
Same here. Needed any old crap for temporary bracing a length of hardboard so plumped for sawn battening. Didn't notice the splits and terrible twist in it at the time I strode confidently out with it. Fit for f*ck all but firewood and I can get that much cheaper elsewhere.
Even their so called StraightWood[TM] which is finger jointed from shorter lengths and planed, doesn't live up to its name.
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