chippymart
Established Member
Helping a developer out for a few weeks as he is busy and I'm not and he sent me to fit some window boards today. When I got there ,found out they were made out of Cedar. The dimensions are 900mm wide by 40mm thick, made up from 6 planks at 150mm wide.
They are still pretty wet and they are all cut around steels and in a L-shaped bay. Warned him that shrinkage is going to cause him problems as a conservatory so going to get rapid drying out with the heat.
I have one problem windowboard that the joiner glued up and not alternating the grain on the planks to help with cupping.Its already distorted 12mm over the 900mm( which I have to biscuit to the other part of the L) and was thinking about running a few score lines through the back to help relieve some tension when fixing down. Its quite maliable at 40mm thick so was thinking off cutting to half thickness along maybe 3 planks in centreof planks.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this lovely job i have? #-o Client wants cedar even though not ideal for internal joinery.
Cheers Martin.
They are still pretty wet and they are all cut around steels and in a L-shaped bay. Warned him that shrinkage is going to cause him problems as a conservatory so going to get rapid drying out with the heat.
I have one problem windowboard that the joiner glued up and not alternating the grain on the planks to help with cupping.Its already distorted 12mm over the 900mm( which I have to biscuit to the other part of the L) and was thinking about running a few score lines through the back to help relieve some tension when fixing down. Its quite maliable at 40mm thick so was thinking off cutting to half thickness along maybe 3 planks in centreof planks.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this lovely job i have? #-o Client wants cedar even though not ideal for internal joinery.
Cheers Martin.
