1" Thick Boards 16" x 6'
Looking for wood boards that are at least 1″ thick x 16″ long x 6′ wide. Home Depot and Lowes doesn’t sell them. Where can I buy this?
Looking for wood boards that are at least 1″ thick x 16″ long x 6′ wide.
Home Depot and Lowes doesn’t sell them. Where can I buy this?
rosenzweig lumber in E Bronx.
You want 5/4 poplar planed 2 sides, it is under 2.00/sq ft.
Random lengths, random widths, but some are awfully wide.
You can’t ask them on phone, they only deal with manufacturers, but if you show up, be prepared to be amazed.
Bring a tape measure and go upstairs. DOn’t ask for help, just take your time to see hardwoods in huge sizes that everyone else swears doesn’t exist.
Bring a circular saw, they will let you cut it outside the loading bay to smaller lengths.
Tinker is primarily right, but miracles do happen.
Bruce
I just reread this. 16″ wide is what you may mean and 6′ long. 16″ wide is not available. you can get some wood up to maybe 12″ (11.5 dressed) and that would be the stair tread that I referenced above. You may find poplar in the 8-10″ range. I’ve seen oak as wide as 10″. Any of the wood in this range is risky; it may split and I generally do not use it unless I have to.
To make boards this wide, we take narrower pieces and glue them up to whatever width we need (look at table tops). For 1″(dressed)x16″, I would take 5 pieces of 5/4x 4 which will come out to be about 17.5 glued up and rip it down.
This is shop work. I don’t mind telling you how to do it if you wish. My number is on my website.
You can also take 1″ plywood (use cabinet grade birch or maple) and glue a piece of poplar to the front of it and trim or sand the edges down to meet the plywood. of course, this only works if you are painting it. Staining, NG.
Steve
the tinkers wagon
HD has 5/4 pine – though I doubt you want to use that. too soft.
You can get stepping/stair tread which is a heavy 5/4 inch pine and rip it down. This is a denser, older growth pine with fewer knots. Dykes or Metropolitan has this. HD does, but it is laminated together and I would give it a pass.
Adriatic Hardwoods in East New York. I am not sure how they will feel about a small order (they are business to business) and you will have to cut it to your length. They will dress and rip it to your width. When I say dress, they will give you the exact thickness you need. Now that I think of it, they have a radial saw there as well, so they can get your length as well. May charge you for that. If you call Adriatic, tell them “Stetson” sent you. Adriatic can give it to you in any hardwood you like.
If you are really stuck and can wait until a day I am doing shop work, and don’t mind running around, I can dress a piece of wood to your thickness and rip it and cut it. But it may be easier to try elsewhere first. I am in Middle Village which might as well be in Egypt.
Steve
http://www.thetinkerswagon.com
Double up the board thickness, and put molding or edging on the face.
sheet material anyone? 5/8″ MDF laminated is going to be much more stable…….
It’s for my window sill. It’s very deep from the window to the edge of the wall. Right now it’s just drywall that is used as the window sill. I tried the 3/4″ x 16″ x 72″ pine boards from Lowes, but it doesn’t look right, I would prefer the 5/4″ thickness. The species really isn’t that important since I’ll be painting it white.
Dykes or most any lumber yard will have 5/4 in poplar. 16″ may not be available. What is it for?
Not sure about your measurements either (Thinking Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge fiasco) but have you tried Dykes Lumber in Gowanus? http://www.dykeslumber.com/
For flooring??? You mean 16″ wide x 6′ long????
http://www.sylvanbrandt.com
16′ wide is almost an impossibility these days. Get yourself a biscuit joiner and make them. For a good fit you’ll also neecd a jointer, which are expensive.
Cheapest material that comes in 1″ thick would be 5/4 decking.
No, HD and Lowe’s doesn’t carry anything like this except the decking.