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The vast majority of the boards and carpenters gets come pre-cut to 92 and 5'8". That is exactly the size you need for an 8' wall. It is only a tiny minority of
by bluGill 5mo ago
The vast majority of the boards and carpenters gets come pre-cut to 92 and 5'8". That is exactly the size you need for an 8' wall. It is only a tiny minority of borders that the carpenter is actually cutting on site. The majority are already pre-cut to the exact size needed.
It would be possible to cut boards to the exact site in a factory. However, you would lose more in the logistics cost of managing all the different possible sizes that you need. Thus two by fours come size multiple of two feet except for the 92 and 5/8's and 104 and 5/8's. Those later too are the extremely common sizes that are used in most commonly.
The truck has to pass through something like Home Depot anyway because all those boards come not on a truck they come on a railroad car and then they'd have to be transferred to trucks to get them to wherever. That Home Depot-like place is also a good place to stage things if you actually are building you'll discover that the dedicated lumber yards are very good at breaking apart all the different pallets of lumber and they figure out exactly what you need and they put those all into one group and bring it to you. Yes, you do sometimes have to cut a 10 foot 2 by 4 and 9 foot 2 inches. However, you are never in the situation where you have a 12 foot 2 by 4, you have to cut to that size because Lumberyard has already figured that out and gotten you the closest to the right size for you. Having been in construction, I can inform you that there are very few boards that actually return to the lumber yard at the end of the build. They are generally right on and getting you the exact amount of lumber you need from the blueprint
- nradov 5mo agoAll but the cheapest new residential construction has moved to 9'+ walls. Buyers like higher ceilings.
- Markoff 5mo agoI wonder if someone explained to them difference in heating/cooling expenses + how much the extra 30-50 cm adds also to construction materials
- nradov 5mo agoPeople like to live in nice homes and the cost difference is tiny over the life of the structure.
- Markoff 5mo agoconstruction cost maybe, heating/cool expenses difference won't be so tiny, quite the opposite and it's not only about expenses, lower ceiling is also faster to cool/heat, so you have to wait shorter time I can really understand high ceiling (in new residential buildings) only for people who use fake built-in second floor (dunno the word in English, maybe mezzanine by my quick research) for like bed or something, but what's the point then and why not build proper separated 2nd floor if you are building new house
- bluGill 5mo agoIn a modern house insulation is very good (in general) and so your heating cooling expenses are not that high over a lifetime.
- Markoff 5mo agoSo you are telling me cooling down or heating bigger volume of air takes same amount of energy/money than smaller volume?
- bluGill 5mo agoThe larger use of energy in HVAC is recovery from losses from convection, conduction, radiation, and air leaks. The one time heating or cooling is small.
- nradov 5mo agoI always find in funny when NH users try to claim that consumers like the wrong things.
- dlcarrier 5mo ago
- bluGill 5mo ago104 5/8 2x4s also are readily available. Drywall also comes in the correct size to fit 9 foot walls. Home depot stocks it.