kiln dried question?

[david]

Hi,

I am going to use 5/4 mangaris for a deck and porch I am building. I want to use the Eb-Ty hidden fasteners with it. Spozedly the wood was shipped kiln dried to 8-12%, but it has been sitting in a big, mostly open warehouse for 6 months, the last 2 of which have been very rainy (Greenville, SC). Will the wood have absorbed moisture under these conditions?

Obviously, a tester is the only way to know, but I don't have one. It is important as it determines the spacing between the boards. With KD,

1/4" is recommended, for air dried 3/32"...Eb-Ty makes 2 different clips to acheive those results.

Any thoughts or advice? Any recommendations on a moisture meter?

thanks,

david

[Edwin Pawlowski]

No more that if it was sitting on your deck in the rain.

So, you mean that sitting in the warehouse it is no longer kiln dried?

[david]

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thanks for the reply...

yes, that is my question...can I expect that the moisture content has risen from 8-12% since it was not kept in a climate controlled environment?

david

[JGS]

[Thomas H. Bunetta]

[Craig]

LOL - I doubt that I'd have much knowledge to contribute to this group that most folks would not know way more - but I got a funny story or two. A neighbor built a board fence and did not leave any spacing at all. Maybe he had seen board fence that someone built up the hill further and painted black. As a privacy thing that one up the hill was like watching a flickering old time movie when driving by. Person later painted it white and then one could not see the nice bikini clad butt strolling about the yard anymore. ;-( Oh well. The no space fence was a chuckle right off. Come winter it must have warped well over a foot one way and the other aside from pushing a lot of board plumb off the 2x4's.

Wish the fellow had built a deck and I'd gotten around to taking pictures of the whole mess.