russ_1380
Established Member
Hi everyone and happy New Year.
Just a quick question:
I appreciate the traditional measurement of timber is in cubic feet.
When ringing suppliers, I find some give a price for a cubic foot of a certain profile of timber (e.g 1 x 6 inch etc). This is fine and I appreciate the fact that wider boards will cost proportionally more than skinnier boards hence the difference in cubic foot price.
What I don't understand is best described with a theoretical example:
---Oak £55.38 / cubic foot (in 2 x 6 inch planks)---
When I calculate this I work out that for my cubic foot of timber, I should be given a length of timber approximately 144 inches long. (2 x 6 x 144 = 1728 or the volume of 1 cubic foot.)
The planks they have offered me have been far shorter than this.
The timber shops will know what thy are doing far more than me, so am I doing something fundamentally wrong here with the figures and my calculations?
Thanks
Russ
Just a quick question:
I appreciate the traditional measurement of timber is in cubic feet.
When ringing suppliers, I find some give a price for a cubic foot of a certain profile of timber (e.g 1 x 6 inch etc). This is fine and I appreciate the fact that wider boards will cost proportionally more than skinnier boards hence the difference in cubic foot price.
What I don't understand is best described with a theoretical example:
---Oak £55.38 / cubic foot (in 2 x 6 inch planks)---
When I calculate this I work out that for my cubic foot of timber, I should be given a length of timber approximately 144 inches long. (2 x 6 x 144 = 1728 or the volume of 1 cubic foot.)
The planks they have offered me have been far shorter than this.
The timber shops will know what thy are doing far more than me, so am I doing something fundamentally wrong here with the figures and my calculations?
Thanks
Russ