I am making a few bee hive boxes for native bees and am constricted a bit into using the dimensions and timber sizes of an existing box that I need to match the new boxes to.
I have been searching widely in the Brisbane area for rough cut 100 x 50 or dressed 90 x 45 mm pine. However, it seems that everywhere that I look, I can only find treated pine, either CCA for external use or the green anti-termite treatment for internal use. Naturally, the bee hive boxes need to be made from materials that contain no treatments that are intended to kill insects.
Can anyone suggest where I can find a supplier of good old common, garden variety, 100 x 50, untreated, rough cut pine, please? I need only 15 - 20 lineal metres.
It has to be pine for thermal qualities since native bees need a stable temperature in their home. Hardwood has better weather resistance but, being more dense, it is not so good thermally.
I have been searching widely in the Brisbane area for rough cut 100 x 50 or dressed 90 x 45 mm pine. However, it seems that everywhere that I look, I can only find treated pine, either CCA for external use or the green anti-termite treatment for internal use. Naturally, the bee hive boxes need to be made from materials that contain no treatments that are intended to kill insects.
Can anyone suggest where I can find a supplier of good old common, garden variety, 100 x 50, untreated, rough cut pine, please? I need only 15 - 20 lineal metres.
It has to be pine for thermal qualities since native bees need a stable temperature in their home. Hardwood has better weather resistance but, being more dense, it is not so good thermally.
Rough cut 100 x 50 mmm pine wanted
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