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Post by chippy on Nov 15, 2008 15:23:32 GMT
I've just acquired some rough sawn oak stock, which will most likely end up as kitchen doors. Should I store this in the workshop (warm and dry) or in the shed (cold and a little damp)?
If I was using it soon I'd put it indoors to stabilise in the environment it's destined for. I won't be touching it for a month or two though.
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Post by nickw on Nov 15, 2008 15:39:32 GMT
Workshop. It will revert to air-dried moisture content if you store it outdoors, and is sounds like your shed counts as outdoors.
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Post by dom on Nov 16, 2008 9:29:23 GMT
This whole thing puzzles me. Every timber supplier I've been to stores their hardwoods in unheated but dry sheds which are open to the ambient humidity of the atmosphere outside. My timber store is a similar situation - unheated but dry. When I'm starting a new job I tend to plane the required boards on each side just enough to reveal the figure and then store them in the workshop for a few days before commencing work proper. Is this really neccesary? If so, how long should I leave them? On the inevitable occasions that I have used timber straight out of the unheated store I have noticed no ill-effects at all. Is it all a fuss about nothing? I'm making furniture, by the way. Yes it is neccesary, perhaps you've been lucky or you don't have heating in your house. |
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Post by chippy on Nov 16, 2008 16:01:57 GMT
ok, I'll do that.
I made a table top once where I used timber straight from the shed, three wide boards biscuited together. The seams opened up after just a couple of weeks. I put that down to using damp timber so Ive always brought the wood indoors a week before working with it.
I havent had the opposite problem yet, of taking dry boards, putting the final piece into a damper/humid environment and seeing it swell.
The solution is probably to leave some expansion gaps, use oval shaped holes for screws and that kind of thing, but to be honest, I dont bother (and I shall probably pay the price one day).
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