Best Place to get Merbau Decking in MELB

[Fr_303]

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I'm looking to get some Merbau Decking - Who do you guys recommened I get it from I'm in the Melbourne area.

I'm after 90 x 19mm Kilen Dried Single Side Reeded

Bunnings have it for $3.80 a meter

[MatterHorn]

I don't know if it's cheaper, but I've been told about Chippys (http://www.chippystimber.com.au/) in Ringwood.

They pretty much specialise in decking materials.

[Fr_303]

Thanks for that I had a look . There a bit more expensive

[oohsam]

Try Tile Importers in Huntingdale. They are cheap cheap.

[thebuildingsurv]

you can pick up some pickles or bottled water or any other wierd things they have for sale at tile importers to.

[oohsam]

hahahah. I like Tile importers. Its great for ppl like me. You walk in, help yourself to what you need and just pay and leave. Its no good for people however who want a 20 minute discussion about what they should/shouldn't buy, how much eggs cost and the communisim situation in china...but then again, you cant really get that at bunnings either.
Thats just my opinon however, I think they are a great mob to deal with.
Cheers.

[thebuildingsurv]

I like it to, i bought tile underlay there for half the price it was at bunnies, when I rang up and asked what brand it was, that just said it complies with australian standards (yer right). In one of the rooms there they have shifty written on the wall with a bunch of car rego numbers, the list gets bigger and bigger, must be people who steel stuff.

I know a bloke who was buying timber there and they tried to sell him a bag of lamb chops.

I have never been to a place quite like it you can get everything and anything, although the funny thing is they dont have much in the way of tiles.

[wood duck 2]

If you show bunnies the add on the back page of the Melb Trading post where it 's advertised for $3.60 PLM you'll get it for $3.24PLM.
Cheers
Thomas.

[Fr_303]

sorry to bring this up again but has anyone picked up a good price on merbau in the melbourne western suburbs area????

[Buggermedumplings]

Mahoney's timber in Thomastown (Nth Suburbs) I bought for $3.70/m, 90mm boards. Possibly not a rock bottom price but they only import packs in set lengths (3.3, 3.9, 4.2 etc etc) which was perfect for me as I did not want joins. Timber seems to be pretty good quality too.

[Lbudgie]

got 140 x 19 at 5.56 per LM.

[Fr_303]

got 140 x 19 at 5.56 per LM.
were from?

[Dr - 307]

Yeah.....where from??? :~

[colind321]

Try Glenn Timber and Hardware in Potter St Craigieburn, quote the 3:80 plm price and I am sure they will beat it. They did for me when I got my decking over Christmas to redeck my patio. The quality was great and had no complaints and use them all the time for my timber needs.

Regards

colind321 :2tsup:

[Lbudgie]

got on ebay and found advertised "bye it now " price (cant remember what it was now) print it out. went to bunnies highlited sevral times it was a buy it now price and not an auction price. bit of umm and arrrrring they beat it by 10% worked out to be 5.56 / lm. got one and a half packs, and its really good. was very surprised with the quality nearly all are over 3.5m. about 10 boards are a bit rough on the top. aprox 5% have a bit of a bow in them and the reast are straight.

[Waldo]

Mathews Timber in Vermont. The timber is faultless maybe more per metre but worth it in my book. :2tsup:

[manoftalent]

Tile Importers are a great place to shop for cheap timber .....but ....according to "bunnies" ..the "quality" is not as good ...this was told to me in a recent trip to bunnies after I failed to get a required length of 140 x19 pine I wanted from TI....My other (insert expletive) was that bunnies was charging more than three times the cost for 140 x19 pine per metre than Tile Importers ....so i took them to task over it and went to the trade counter and complained .....marched the "manager" down to the rack and said .....are you ppl delusional?....do you seriously expect to get away with charging such outrageous prices?.....He said : "whats the problem mate?"......your charging $5.80 per metre for this (pointing to the 140 x19) and I just paid $1.80 per metre for it at another timber store...pointing to receipt.....oh we dont match prices with them, they are a timber "merchant" he said .....that may be the case says I, but they also deal with the general public I said ....any joe blogs can walk in and buy somthing I said , just like they do here ....so lets go and sharpen our pencil shall we, because I am not paying that rediculous price and you do want to keep me happy dont you? says I .....well we walked back to the trade counter .....he sharpened His pencil ......and I got what I wanted for double the price I paid at Tile Importers ....almost ...I paid $4 a metre for it.....so my advice is stand up for yourself and dont take no for an answer .....your the customer ......and as far as quality is concerned ......there is no such thing as "noname" pine or "brandname" pine.......its all pine ....store it wrong....it'll warp ....treat it rough ...it'll crack .....but at the end of the day ......it's just pine.