Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
You'd be hard pressed to find timber of that quality at affordable
prices new. If at all.

Bwahaha.

http://www.ukarchitecturalantiques.c...loorboards_219

about £30 per square meter

I can get oak for less than that..a lot less.

So give the URL so we can compare.

I did just that in the post stoopid.

Plus of course, if you already have
pine, you may want to match it.

Its about £30 a cubic foot. That's a raw lumber price at say 25mm
thickness (planed to 19mm) of around 75p a sq foot. Or maybe £7.50 a
square meter. OK sawing and planing takes it up a LOT, but not that much.

http://www.adoos.co.uk/post/1942892/..._starting_from

they claim £13 a square meter.

Id say £20 is nearer for most places I've looked.

But most Victorian floorboards weren't tongue and groove. Too much
movement in the average Victorian house. ;-)

And lack of spindle moulders

More ********. HTF do you think they made all those mouldings? By hand?


A lot of them, yes.

Its not actually that hard.

I've done similar here.