With a couple of thousand of you out there, I was hoping that this label would be recognised. I need urgently to know the likely store that sells it. Its the sort of label one is likely to find on a DIY store such as Wickes or Homebase or B and Q. Go to this link to see a photo
Doing a quick search on Google for the bar code number points to B&Q
Go to the B&Q website, then slap in 5014957047174 in the search, and bingo!
Here is a link
looks like B&Q to me
J^n
snipped-for-privacy@atics.co.uk gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Yup. Wickes is similar but yellow.
One feels compelled to ask why you need to know (and urgently)?
well, if it is from b&Q, it's prolly full of knotts and more bent than graham norton, so he needs to know which area managers arse to shove them up sideways.
Thanks to Toby JKN the Medway Handiman and gazz
Yes it is B & Q
For the curiosity of Rory I have been asked for my expert opinion on ageing some timbers in a Court case in which I am instructed and was considering dendrochronology until I went on site and found this label. As my brief was to age it within decades, this label puts the timber pretty squarely in the last decade or so but I will check with the store! Thanks to you all
Chris
Have you considered that the label may not be contemporaneous with the timber?
Owain
That's why B&Q sponsored her on her round the world sailing trip. It saved the boat builders hundreds of hours as they didn't need to bend the wood for the three hulls!!
B&Q fo' sho'
No, because there is a label on every single one of 15 odd timbers and the tenor of the construction is such that there is no doubt it is genuine As a matter of interest I have now found out the age of the label and it is less than 10 years old Chris
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