wood for a shed/workshop what's its name and who supplies it question?

Sep 30, 2008 15 Replies

as subject wood for a shed/workshop what's the name and who supplies it its a bit like a floor board or pine cladding with tongue and groves but its tapered towards the top, I have looked in B&Q but all they do is feather edge ,or is it just known as cladding?


Whats it for,lining the walls of the shed?

You said the name yourself ie tongue&groove cladding.

Doh I forgot about Wicks this is the stuff Shiplap Cladding and thanks for reminding me about Wicks, not been for a while as I have to drive past a big B&Q and go to the centre of town to get there

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Ar! splice the main brace and kit out the shiplap.

Yardarm at 1.00 am :-)

If not sooner.

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Sounds a load of ship to me ! Dave

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Just a quick point to OP... now you know what you're looking for, try a timber merchant. I DIY'd a shed, and found a local timber yard selling

16mm shiplap for around 1/2 price of what wickes were charging for (I think) 12mm, and the quality was a lot better than what I'd seen propped up in Wickes.

(note: I'm not laying into Wickes here, but if you're buying a large quantity of timber, buy from a timber merchant - it's their stock-and-trade).

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trouble is when you dont have one local and you ask for some wood for a shed on the phone it helps to know what its called :-). on a side note do wood yards still exist? all the ones my dad used have long since closed

lol if they did not exist where do suppose the sheds get their stock. :-)

most woodies around this neck of the woods(no pun intended) are on the dock road area. look in the yellow book.

out of a container from a ship?

Not found Reading dock yet I think the Kennet is a bit shallow for the container ships :-) not one wood yard or woodyard in the yellow pages I did find timber yards though

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