2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Actual size is supposed to be 1.5 - eviltoast

I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you’d think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    The consumer (people who work with lumber) knows how the system works. You don’t, because you don’t work with lumber.

    If the boards were precisely measured in mm and binned accordingly, it would help no one because all construction techniques developed for use with lumber account for dimensional inaccuracy.

    Building and working with lumber is different than working with manufactured materials like plywood or whatever.