Roubo solid timber top vs laminated

[Kevin Jenness]

I would suggest trimming back the ends beyond the checks and sealing them to limit further degrade.

[Scott Winners]

I do not own a paper guide published by the Canadian Wood Council. You might start poking around here:

https://cwc.ca/en/how-to-build-with-...lumber/grades/

[Scott Winners]

In the last 90 minutes I pulled the last piece of rough opening out from a closet doorway at my house and found this grade mark pictured.

Pacific Lumber Industry Board. PLIB. https://www.plib.org/lumber-grading-...rade-stamping/

The grade stamp pictured earlier in this thread does not spell out the species or the grade level of the pictured timbers that I can see. I have not yet found "RFP" or "TAC" on the PLIB website, but I need to get back to work on my closet.

Best wishes.



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[Steve Lake]

Thanks everyone, sounds like a plan! I’ll plan to re-saw once or twice, expose to VG and laminate. Chop off the ends that are checking and seal.

Will be a couple weeks before I have a chance to work on it but I’ll post some photos. Thanks again!

Scott - thanks for looking up the stamp. I haven’t found RFP or TAC referenced anywhere either, but I’m 99% sure they are DF and should do the trick for my needs here!

[Thomas Crawford]

I agree I would resaw at least once. Resawing would also give you the chance to have a dovetailed end cap that should help with any additional splitting if you can't afford to crosscut it that far in.