2X4 Lumber

[Snets]

Have you guys run into this? I'm remodeling a bathroom and need to add a number of studs into existing walls for various reasons...I sorted through the lumber at HD which is very close to the job and found some nice, dry and straight 2X4's and then found that they are not consistent dimensions. They are 1-1/2" X 3-5/8"......What the heck?

Thankfully I bought a Makita cordless planer a few years ago...to shave existing studs, not new ones!

[Kman]

I've seen that a few times.

Dang metric system!!!

I don't know the cause of that, other than some mill with the fence on their saw set wrong.

[cx]

Do they feel particularly heavy, John? Not uncommon to find lumber at homers that's green enough to grow if you bury an end in the ground. Those 3 5/8ths" pieces could be down to 3 1/2" in a few weeks in conditioned space.

Take'em home and put a meter on them and find the KD lumber reading in excess of 30 percent moisture content.

But Homer's is 9 miles away and my lumber yard is 35 miles away, so.......

[Snets]

Some were heavy, some were light, did not correlate with the odd dimensions. I'm not buying any more and the ones I used are blocking for shower glass.

The good lumber yard is less than 10 miles so not too bad.

[Kman]

Buying lumber at the big box stores is like buying all your best tools at Harbor freight.

[John Bridge]

Way back when I was a carpenter instead of a tile guy studs were 3-5/8 x 1-5/8. Sometime in the seventies they downsized. Big mess. Doesn't help current problems I know.