Sweet chestnut or larch cladding.

[muttley9050]

Hi all,

I need a price on enough feather edge cladding to cover around 120m2. Depending on size of board this would be around 140-150 m2 of board face. Would like sweet chestnut or sequoia but would be happy with larch. It's for a local community project that we will start building in around January time. I wonder if anyone on here would be able to give me a price on this? I was also tempted by oak cladding but thought this may be a little expensive.

Any of you clever chaps out there got any knowledge of life expectancy of the different species?

Thanks a lot

James.

[agg221]

Are you planning on treating it at all?

 

If not, oak or sweet chestnut will last about 50yrs, larch ~30. Depends a bit on the exposure and the detailing though.

 

The overwhelming cost of cladding is in the milling rather than the raw material, unless it's softwood from a volume production sawmill. If you can find the butts, having it milled with a portable bandsaw mill is pretty efficient and may save a lot. Tommer9 posted some pictures of milling cladding a couple of years back.

 

edit: there might be some useful content here, including a handy link:

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/milling-forum/36341-advise-milling-fir-building-materials-2.html#post572832

 

Alec

Edited August 4, 2013 by agg221

[muttley9050]

Thanks Alec

The jobs for the next village over from me, where my folks live. It's a storage shed for the different clubs, pre schools, sports facilities that use the wreck. The village is a strange setup where the village association own almost 100% of the non privately owned areas bar roads / pavements etc. Next to the wreck is a large chunk of woodland which I've been trying to convince them to harvest the cladding from. My bro in law do most of the tree work in public spaces in the village, and it can be hard to convince then to remove even dangerous trees like a large rotten crack willow we removed a couple of weeks back.

The intention would be no treating of cladding, hence the prefrence for sweet chestnut, also preferred over oak for its better stability. However no s/c in woodland but they do have oak.

Maybe I would be better off trying to buy some butts locally and hire a mill in.

Just trying to get prices on different options so I can inform the comitee as best I can.

Will read the info in the link you posted.

James

[arbwork]

James hello I may be able to supply s. chestnut, I will speak to owner of timber and get back to you, would you want to mill it with us? cheers jeremy

[muttley9050]

Thanks Jeremy, if we were buying saw logs, we would need it milled, and you would be the obvious choice. Like I say the project isn't for immidiate start, so no rush.

Maybe you could give me an idea of cost of the saw logs, an idea of how much you think it would cost to mill. I will do a quick calculation later on the number of linear meters of 8" cants we would need. As mentioned in a pm to you earlier, im also after 1 s/c butt for personal uses, maybe there's a possibility you could supply me this. This one would be for alaskan milling myself.

Thanks

James

[Copford sawmill sussex]

Pm sent for a price in ceder just for your interest.