Lumber Order Pack
What to order, what you actually get, and whether it will hold
What to order, what you actually get, and whether it will hold. Grades and their clear yields, rough against surfaced and what you pay for the difference, and then the part every order sheet guesses at: how much lumber your actual cut list needs once the parts have to come out of real boards of real lengths. One plain table wants 24 board feet from 12-foot boards and 32 from 8-foot ones — the same parts, a third more lumber, and the choice costs nothing. Then moisture targets, span limits, and finishing. 10 pages, printable, with a fill-in cut list, order sheet and project record.
Look inside
Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- All five NHLA grades with the clear yield each one guarantees
- What to order for a given net footage, in every grade
- Whether the cheaper grade is actually cheaper once yield is applied
- The quarters ladder: rough, surfaced, and what you realistically finish at
- Why a finished 1in part does not come out of 4/4
- Five things a hardwood yard does that surprise a first-time buyer
- What your cut list really costs in lumber, packed into the board lengths a yard stocks
- Why longer boards are NOT always better — and why there is no rule, only your own list
- The same parts out of 8 ft and 12 ft, board by board, offcut by offcut
- How far the flat 10% cutting allowance is out, on length alone, before a single rip
- Moisture targets for where the piece will live, not where it was built
- Span limits by material and thickness, with the flat-shelf criterion
- Six finishes: coats, coverage, what each is for and where each fails
- How to buy: the order of work at the yard, and what to settle before you go
- Fill-in order sheet, delivery record and finishing record
- ✓ 10 printable pages
- ✓ 15 reference tables and checklists
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed — just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the figures and the order they cannot know.