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Author Message Jerome J. Lazar, RA, CCS, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: lazarcitec Post Number: 764 Registered: 05-2003 Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 05:45 pm:    I need to write a spec on this wood to be used for a rain screen...Trespa is out, someone has money to burn...anyone can offer some assistance on this one? Steve Taylor (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 07:53 pm:    What you have is essentially a propriatary product. Not that it's patented or anything, but I don't think there will be more than one source. I would call out the species of wood (latin name if you've got it) its secondary attribuit: 400 year old salvaged pilings. Then tell them where to get it. I hope whoever selected the stuff made sure there is enough of it to do the job. And if it's a done deal they'll need a deposit or something to hold it. In my past life I was involved in a couple of jobs where the specified exotic product evaporated before we could start fabrication. Steve Taylor Dave Metzger Senior Member Username: davemetzger Post Number: 413 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2012 - 10:03 am:    Jerome, per Steve Taylor's good points, if there's any question about certainty of the supply, it may be worthwhile for the owner to buy (not just put a deposit on) the salvaged wood, and then the salvaged wood would be an owner-furnished product. Steve Taylor Senior Member Username: steveatwi Post Number: 46 Registered: 07-2008 Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2012 - 01:58 pm:    Dave, Good Point. I would strongly encourage having someone with knowledge verify that the quantity is sufficient. There can be a lot of waste in this sort of operation. Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 1241 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 - 01:38 pm:    I've done a few projects with owner furnished FSC wood; Same issue because good appearance grade FSC wood is hard to come by, especially in any sort of quantity. Steve's suggestion about verifying quantity too. we tend to think that all salvaged wood will be perfect and meet every criteria, but there were bad trees 400 years ago, too. George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 618 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 - 02:59 pm:    "...but there were bad trees 400 years ago, too." That sounds like the punchline from a New Yorker cartoon. George A. Everding AIA CSI CCS CCCA Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies St. Louis, MO Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEED® AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 134 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 - 04:35 pm:    Ok, now someone here has to come up with the cartoon to go that punchline. Justatim Senior Member Username: justatim Post Number: 28 Registered: 04-2010 Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 07:52 am:    There's already a comic strip called "Bad Tree." http://badtreecomic.com/aboutus.html It consists mostly of bad puns, but there are a few good puns too. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1388 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 10:25 am:    Is there such a thing as a "good" pun? After all, according to Oscar Levant, "A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first." Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEED® AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 135 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 05:13 pm:    “Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.” Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 1359 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2012 - 04:13 pm:    Once that wood is no longer submerged, expect it to rot away pretty quickly when used as a cladding.