Hello
The first project of spring is to repair the slowly rotting parts of our beautiful old greenhouse, which unfortunately was painted with some plastic paint by the previous owner. More and more panes are falling out and the wood is partly already decayed. See picture.
Anyway, I would like to build so that it lasts at least for the rest of my lifetime, so I want to try to get a hold of fine, dense pine. I roughly need 20 lpm planed 50x50mm which will then be milled and joined (which will be fun and challenging!), but where can you find this? The local lumberyards here south of Stockholm sell planed wood in (almost suitable dimensions), but of everything except dense and moreover banana-like quality. Well, it's not a piece of furniture that's being built, but I want it to be good and maintainable for at least 50-100 years ahead.
Lacking access to "local small sawmills," which is often the recommendation here on Byggahus, I have therefore looked around a bit online and found what is referred to as scantling, pine of the highest quality, see here. I received a cost estimate that includes planing and transport and ends up quite a bit outside my intended budget. Perhaps not so surprising since I imagine this is about as fine wood as you can get today, probably overkill for this purpose, but I'm tempted anyway. But, before I go for it, I thought I’d ask this excellent forum if there are any alternative suggestions. All thoughts and tips are gratefully received!
If you instead look for densely grown pine planks in 2 or 2.5 inches thick and cut and plane the material you need yourself, I think it might be a bit easier than finding 50*50 planed in the desired quality.
Thanks for the suggestion! It would naturally have been the easiest if I just had a jointer and a planer, which unfortunately I don't have. And I don't have space for it either.
Thanks for the suggestion! Of course, it would have been the easiest if I just had a jointer and planer, which unfortunately I don't. And I don't have room for it either.
That is of course one way, but unfortunately, I think the threshold is too high for it to be a reasonable approach. I have two jobs and three small children and have neither planed (by hand) since woodshop in middle school nor own any planes. I will probably have to buy my way out of the problem unfortunately. The purpose of my question was to see if there were other suggestions than the costly one I've managed to dig up, and I should have described my limitations a bit more clearly.
Laugh if you want, but dense-grained planed heart pine in the desired dimension is probably quite hard to find. Check out Marketplace or Blocket if you don't have any personal contact with a suitable small-scale sawmill, maybe you'll find pine planks of sufficient quality that you can process yourself.
That is naturally one way, but unfortunately, I think the threshold is too high for it to be a reasonable approach. I have two jobs and three small children and haven't planed (by hand) since woodwork class in middle school or own any planes. I'll probably have to buy my way out of the problem, unfortunately. The purpose of my question was to see if there were other suggestions than the costly one I managed to dig up, and I should probably have described my limitations a bit more clearly.
Then you may need to adjust the dimension requirement to what is available commercially.
Laugh if you will, but dense-grown planed heart pine in the desired dimension is probably quite hard to find. Check Marketplace or Blocket if you don't have any personal contact with a suitable small sawyer, maybe you'll find pine planks of sufficient quality that you can process yourself.
Sorry, I didn't mean to laugh in an arrogant way. But hand planing that much lumber is completely unrealistic for me. I appreciate your help! My first thought was to build with the dimensions available in the market, but I basically can't find anything thicker than 34x34 (at least not close to where I live) and that is probably too flimsy (and is also anything but straight and dense-grown).
Since you don't have the ability to plane yourself, it's probably easiest to try to find a small carpentry shop that can plane for you, 20lpm isn't that much. Pondus is a place I've shopped from a long time ago, but there are more out there.
Since you don't have the option to plane yourself, it's probably easiest to try to find a small carpentry shop that can plane it for you, 20lpm isn't that much.
Pondus I've bought from a long time ago, but there are more.
Great, thanks for the tip! I've emailed them with a proposal.
//Gustaf
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