Milling of salvaged boards?

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Author Message David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 1165 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 - 02:22 pm:    Where would I specify salvaging heavy timber beams and milling/finishing them into 1x interior finish panelling? Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1214 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 - 02:34 pm:    Paneling section under materials? Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEEDŽ AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 98 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 - 03:01 pm:    If the salvaged timbers are from the same property that is to receive the finished panels, wouldn't this have to be dealt with in both the demolition and paneling sections? With appropriate cross-referencing of course. Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP Senior Member Username: redseca2 Post Number: 263 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 - 06:35 pm:    I would create a separate wood paneling spec (separate from any wood paneling in the scope using all new materials) because of the unique procurement and fabrication requirements that may involve a separate sub bid. But more to the point, because nice ideas like this at DD phase tend to disappear by Bid Award on a lot of our projects and separate Sections would make last minute editing the spec for construction a lot cleaner.