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What species, what country? Because absolutely no softwood in North America does this. You can run Deckmates into the oldest pine you want all day. (And hardne
by eropple 3y ago
What species, what country? Because absolutely no softwood in North America does this. You can run Deckmates into the oldest pine you want all day.
(And hardness has little to do with the strength or survivability of a constructed building.)
- DropInIn 3y agoNorth Central coast BC, looks and smells like fir And it absolutely 100% does, as I've had it happen to me many times. It also gives circ saws a hell of a time. Don't know how to prove this given that's an 18 hour drive from me and she's not currently doing renos....
- ChoGGi 3y agoYeah it's fir, I'm next door to you in southern Alberta. You'll find it in older houses, I keep it whenever I come across it.
- DropInIn 3y agoYea I'm wondering if we just had more of it left more recently than the Yanks and thus most of them have absolutely zero clue about this as they literally had zero of this type of material in any of their old construction aside from historic homes with listed status...