Woodwork - How to Order

It would help if I posted the site in question, right?
http://www.jewson.co.uk/timber/

>>1156704
"Scaffold board" is specially rated and graded stuff, specifically for the construction of scaffoldings. There are a whole host of specific standards for that, stay away from it unless that is what you are building.

ifaik 'carcassing' is just another way to say framing. General wood thing made of wood.

"strength graded timber" is for a specific purpose, usually meeting some engineering specification that you would know if you needed.

"Treated" is just means something has been done to the wood, usually pressure-cooking it in a preservative / pesticide. Important for outdoor uses. Sometimes there are options like fireproofing treatment.

CLS seems to be the term they are using for general cheap wood. midding to low quality soft wood of fast-growing pine. The boards for the work-bench in the garage or the shelves in the attic. Going up a level would be what they offer as planed square-edge timber. This would probably be the nicer wood that you wouldn't mind someone seeing inside your home, nicer boards for the shelves of a bookcase, that kind of thing.

Making sense?

>>1156711
Aye, thats brilliant. Thanks for your help.

>>1156704
CLS is cheap stuff good enough for basic learning, rather large though. In the UK it tends to be spruce not pine but that's fine. Might find it cheaper in b&q when they have too much in stock. Better to choose by fans because they can have giant knots.


When you decide to do something nice go browse the real lumber yards I your area, small companies, not Jewson.

>>1156704

Never order wood unless you are buying an absolute metric shitload. Go to the store and pick it out yourself. People sort their own and leave the junk pieces which the store has to do something with, which is where people who order and have it delivered come in.

If they won't let you pick your pieces go to another place. The last thing you need is a pile of picked through crooked lumber that's full of knots. If you're making something decorative you should always go to the lumber yard and pick it out yourself anyways so you can make sure that the grain pattern fits with whatever it is you're making.

>>1156707
Dont order if you can transport it yourself, they will ship any old shit from the yard

>>1156711

>"Scaffold board"

Dunno about the UK, but here in the Netherlands the fashion of using old scaffold board in furniture got so big they started calling all untreated spruce boards "scaffold board" to get in on it.

>>1156707

They seem to be very specialized in construction wood. No Western Red Cedar, no Douglas/larch, no hardwoods no nothing.

The treated wood is theoretically suitable for outdoors, but the chemicals in it are quite harsh so poorly suited for furniture.