The Natural Philosopher wrote:
George (dicegeorge) wrote:
if its rough old firewood
wouldnt you be bringing all kinds of wood bugs into the building?

if its building wood
then someone just said it should be at room temperature
so it doesnt shrink or expand when its fitted to a room..


Room humidity rather than room temp.

Thermal coefficient of wood is very low, but it absorbs water like
nobodies business

It's reckoned that wood dries outdoors to a moisture content of 17% in
winter, and 15% in summer. This is what you expect joinery quality from
a timber merchant to be. But for indoor stuff and furniture, it should
ideally be around 10%, which is only achieved by keeping it indoors for
a few weeks. In an ideal world you wouldn't plane the timber until then