We converted my sons two car garage to a very nice den and we have to match up the wood siding. This is in New Jersey and the only kind I can find available (cedar) is going to cost $3.92 per foot. It is 3/4″ X 10″ beveled siding. Does anyone know if it is made in any other type of wood (cheaper) or where I might be able to beat that price? I’m probably going to need two squares. Also working on my daughters house in North Carolina and need the same thing there also. The original down there is not cedar so it must be made or was made out of other woods. Will need at least another two squares down there. Thanks for any input.
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North Carolina's a big state. Here in Raligh I'd check Capital City Lumber, can't say for sure as they would have it, not having looked for something that wide before, but it would be the first place I would check.
Let's not confuse the issue with facts!
Thanks for your input. My daughter is in Chapel Hill so it's pretty close. I'll have my son-in-law give them a call. Thanks again
That's a good price for good wood that big. As the size increases, so does the opportunity for checks and knots to ruin the job, so for wood that big, you want to be looking for good quality instead of looking for price.
But I know how you retired guys are. I need a shed so when you get done at your daughter's place...
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Thanks for getting back. I have to admit to being very surprised when I heard that price. That's almost $50.00 per twelve foot board, or $400, per square. The house in the Carolinas is not Cedar so it was made out of pine or hemlock back when. The house in New Jersey is Cedar. I guess we'll have to bite the bullet there.
I see so many of your posts on this forum I was wondering if you are retired also?
You might look into cypress. I know little aboput it but it is more common in th emid-atlantic area for siding. but there are those who report that most of it is sold green and has quality problems nowdays.
I reckon I'll be another twenty years before I can afford to retire.
Maybe forty, LOL
This is just what I do while doing other things like watching TV or designing in CAD
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In the first reply. GDCarpenter mentioned Capitol City Lumber in Raleigh.
I agree that they are a good source -- I did a job recently in which I needed some really good-looking Cypress.
Their price on 1X8 Select Cypress was excellent. I was amazed at both the price, and the quality. They could have also ordered #2 grade, but that wouldn't work for siding.
You might want to buy enough cypress to do both jobs. Come to Carolina to do the one, and haul the wood back to do the other.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm going down to Chapel Hill the last week of this month to help my son-in-law sheetrock and spackle the new kitchen. Thanks again for the info.
If memory serves me, I got the best price I could find on REDWOOD clapboards from Arzee in Cedar Knolls, NJ. See:
http://www.arzee.com/locations.htm
It was cheaper than cedar at the time, and it came preprimed. Very nice stuff. If it wasn't Arzee that I got it from, it was the other place across the street in Cedar Knolls that I can never remember the name of. Helpful, huh? Try Arzee.
J Painter
Thanks, I'll give them a call.
In New Jersey there is a very large supplier in Mount Holly. They carry spruce 6" and 8" bevel siding. Diamond M Lumber on rt 38 phone # 261-2701 .Call first to make sure they still carry it, I have not been there for several years.
mike
3/4-inch at the butt is pretty thick siding. If your job is painted, James Hardie makes fibercement clapboard siding in widths of 9-1/4" and 12". Available smooth or rough, but they certainly aren't 3/4" on the lower thick edge. 12/0 lengths only.
Looks just like wood when painted.
When we had to match beveled siding that was 10" with 5/4" (1/2" thicker than yours) at the butt, we called around the local lumber yards in the area. We finally found one that happened to be doing a custom run of what we needed for some rich dude up in Park City. They tacked our order on to his, and we avoided the setup fee for the knives. It cost us a $1.77 a lineal foot for clear VG cedar. I think some of what you are seeing is the setup fees for a custom run, so if you can be patient and keep asking around, you may be able to locate what you want.