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21st March 2005, 09:27 PM #1
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warped wood...??
Hello guys, I have a rather alarming problem. As some of you may have read, I have just moved into a new house that has a great workshop. problem is, I have moved a stock of timber - mainly pine, and old floorboards that i am hoping to put to good use. However, I trucked them over on Friday, left them in the shed, and nearly every one has gone and warped on me - I understand that the new shed may have been hotter than the old one, but how do I go about salvaging the timber. They are all about 20 X 150 X 2m. I would hate to have to feed them into the old wood burner.. Any tips would be most appreciated.
Thank you,
Brad
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21st March 2005, 09:39 PM #2
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Timber is always going to move and warp to some extent. Pine is soft and very suseptible to it, particularly off the shelf stuff from places like Bunnings etc. It's almost impossible to buy it straight. The only solution is a jointer and thicknesser, either as separate machines or as a combo. You really can't do much fine work and certainly not furniture quality without these machines to get it straight and flat again.
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22nd March 2005, 05:06 AM #3
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Try just turning it over to give the moisture a chance to equalise on both sides. Once it is fairly flat again, use stickers to allow proper air flow.
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22nd March 2005, 09:24 AM #4
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Could it be susceptible?
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22nd March 2005, 09:41 AM #5
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Pinus Susceptible?
More likely to be Radiata.
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22nd March 2005, 10:59 AM #6
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Brad,
like Bob says, you need to allow your timber time to equalise to its new environment. Timber hardly moves at all with changes in temperature but is highly reactive to moisture (humidity) changes. It appears from your post that it may be a new shed (just built) if this is so and it's on a concrete slab the slab will be releasing copious amounts of moisture for a month or two. Just stack the timber so there's plenty of air flow, preferably at least 600 off the floor and leave it for a while, it should return to its previous state.
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tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
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22nd March 2005, 01:00 PM #7
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You could install an exhaust fan in the roof, of a wall in order to suck out the moist air. But make sure you have a vent or something on the otehr side of the shed to the exhaust fan to increase air flow. If it is a new shed then it might not help much in the short term, but if it is just that your old shed was under a tree and this new one is under the sun, your wood might be damp from the old place. Either way an exhaust fan will help get rid of that moist air (just buy a good quality one) or one of those spinning things for your roof (the name escapes me at the moment - sorry).
Good luck.
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