Lumber Order Pack
What to order, what you actually get, and whether it will hold
A board-foot calculator tells you what your finished parts contain. A hardwood yard sells rough boards by the board foot, and what you net after milling is your problem. Three multipliers sit in that gap — the grade's clear yield, the quarter inch you plane into shavings, and cutting waste — and together they routinely double the order. This is all five NHLA grades with the yield each guarantees, what the quarters really give you finished, the moisture target for where the piece will LIVE rather than where you built it, span limits by material and thickness, and what a yard does that surprises first-time buyers. 8 pages, printable, ending in an order sheet you take to the counter. Advisory: NHLA definitions; your yard's boards and your climate are the facts.
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
- 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
- ✓ 8 printable pages
- ✓ 11 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.