Your wood dealer may be ripping you off!

Buying wood for building construction is another place where you notice widespread cheating going on among sellers and dealers. You walk to a wood dealer and ask for 2x4 wood, which should translate to a wood with 2 inches by 4 inches as the size, and you will be given a wood measuring about 1 and a half inch by 3 inch. If you start screaming "cheats", everyone around will know you are new. This trick is everywhere and starts from the the saw mill machines who adjust their saw cutting settings to get more quantities from a log of wood. Hey! how about the total length of the wood? I bet you its short by some inches grin Have they sold you cheap soft wood and told you its mahogany? That's the problem, these people will eat you raw when they are sure you don't know the difference. Builders should be aware of this when buying wood, look for places where you can find complete gauge wood, or be aware of what you are buying so you could compensate for the shortfall in size to prevent future problems in the building.