Reclaimed Lumber - Costs
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just looking for some general info from someone who might have experience buying reclaimed lumber..
basically, is it more expensive than an equivalent new?
a local business wants me to do a sort of odd job (odd for me at least) and one of the requests is to use reclaimed lumber on one of the walls.. i'm trying to get them a little more than a rough guess of a price.. (still a guess but not a sourced estimate)
any pricing info appreciated. thanks
not quite but you get the idea:
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look on eBay...
sorry, prices from London won't help much, the only time I've ever found it cheaper was after buying a job-lot on eBay.
The re-claimed timber merchants [here at least] always look comparable, but end up costing at least twice as much as new timber...
I stored and re-used 1000's of linear feet of floorboards and joists in my own refurb, that ended up costing even more that buying reclaimed...lol
john
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yeah, i'll try ebay.. seems like a good start.
there are a lot of places here which sell the stuff.. it's just that i can't look at it/get prices on it until maybe thursday..
so i'll just see what i can find on ebay then just double it for nyc pricing/delivery..i don't really need that much.. the equivalent of 120-- 1x8-8' or so..
so probably around $2000 i'm guessing.
(unless someone has a better guess
)fwiw, it's not the real estimate.. they're still trying to figure out what direction to go.. as long as it's not $5-6000+ worth of wood, it's probably ok.
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reclaimed scaffolding boards are easy to get in any city here, if you can use or rip down 9" boards, and they have a decent thickness.
but, maybe you don't use lumber for those in the USA...
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@driven said:
reclaimed scaffolding boards are easy to get in any city here, if you can use or rip down 9" boards, and they have a decent thickness.
but, maybe you don't use lumber for those in the USA...
nah, we do.. they're too thick though ,i think, for the application of just using them as a wall covering (the wall is already there -- metal stud 16"o.c with drywall and i'd be screwing the reclaimed wood into those studs.)
i could have something like that resawn in half (thickness wise) so they're 3/4" thick and half the weight..
i think if i got a hold of the right scaff boards, the client would go for it.. that's sort of the look they're after.
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like this place...http://www.trad.co.uk/scaffolding/company/scaffold_boards.html
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Bass Pro paid $1 pbf for the reclaimed we used on some of their stores. They sent people around the country looking for old barns and would then tear them down and send the wood to a local cabinet shop for reworking. This was in 2004.
I might add that it's dangerous stuff to work with. planing it, and cutting it you would hit nails, screws, buckshot and bullets.
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