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Re: Home Depot, Menards Sued for "False" Lumber Size
« Reply #75 on: July 12, 2019, 09:54:29 PM »
You mean you have six warped one-and-a-half by three-and-a-halfs, I'm sure.

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Re: Home Depot, Menards Sued for "False" Lumber Size
« Reply #76 on: July 13, 2019, 08:41:56 AM »
I've been buying rough saw lumber from my uncle*. He has a small bandsaw mill and I can get pretty much any native lumber cut to pretty much any dimension I want.


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Re: Home Depot, Menards Sued for "False" Lumber Size
« Reply #77 on: July 13, 2019, 01:37:43 PM »
"Boards" and pieces of wood with a nominal thickness of one inch or less. A "one by" whatever is 3/4 of an inch thick. But a nominal 1-1/4" board ("five quarter") isn't 1-1/4" thick. They used to be 1-1/8" but now they're 1-1/16" thick.

I recently bought a couple 5/4 boards from Home Despot, they were exactly 1" thick.  Which was good because I needed exactly 1" - 1.5" would be too much, 3/4 not enough.

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Re: Home Depot, Menards Sued for "False" Lumber Size
« Reply #78 on: July 15, 2019, 12:42:59 PM »
I recently bought a couple 5/4 boards from Home Despot, they were exactly 1" thick.  Which was good because I needed exactly 1" - 1.5" would be too much, 3/4 not enough.

I had a similar problem to solve last year when the bottom of one of my garage doors rotted out. I needed something exactly 6x2”... I went around measuring boards until I found treated 1x8s that were exactly 1” thick, and glued 2 of the together.
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Re: Home Depot, Menards Sued for "False" Lumber Size
« Reply #79 on: July 15, 2019, 03:39:34 PM »
I had a similar problem to solve last year when the bottom of one of my garage doors rotted out. I needed something exactly 6x2”... I went around measuring boards until I found treated 1x8s that were exactly 1” thick, and glued 2 of the together.

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Re: Home Depot, Menards Sued for "False" Lumber Size
« Reply #80 on: July 16, 2019, 07:58:54 AM »
"Also I've noticed at least in Lowe's that in addition to 2x4 or what have you, they also list true dimensions."

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