Bunnings "Premium" Pine Quality

[Fergy1987]

More of a rant, but just went into Bunnings to try and pick up a few small pieces of pine for a small project. I could not believe the quality of the stuff. The so called DAR "Premium" pine was twisted, bowed, rotting, had knots all over it.
How can they possibly sell this for these prices when its pretty much unusable. Even their "Standard" pine seemed to be in better condition although not much of it.
Is this just what is expected when buying a DAR piece of pine? or should it really be ready to go?

Is there anywhere else in Brisbane South West that would sell small pieces (1.2m or so) of DAR pine at a reasonable price (not going to be a fine woodworking project) that you can recommend?

Thanks everyone

[seriph1]

Surely crap like this has been placed in the wrong area at Bunnings. I have very little faith in their stuff.

There may be a retail supplier of Stora Enso Baltic pine in Brissy ... maybe call their head office and ask. I have found their product excellent.

[Fergy1987]

yeah i'm definitely losing faith in their stock. Sometimes I can pick up a decent piece, but now its taking like 30 mins to find 1 decent piece of stock.

I shall check that out ) thanks for the tip

[graham.murfett]

Whilst pulling out a lot of Bunnings mounding a, looking for straight stock; one of their said to me "I hope you're gunna put all that back."
He kept walking when I responded "you should never have put it on the shelf in the first place."
Not his fault; but he started it!

[bueller]

Same experience here, absolute garbage here in Perth too. I'll pretty much only buy framing timber and ply from Bunnings now, just not worth the trip only to return empty handed.

Even ply I'm getting annoyed with, the stickers are a pain to remove and are more often than not stuck to the best looking side

[graham.murfett]

Even their CD grade 17mm ply is buckled to buggery now.
Looks like a wave display on the shelf.
Garbage.

I find turps gets the sticker glue off without too much drama.

[crowie]

Gents, While the forum is good for encouragement, assistance and letting off steam, IMHO the only way to have any supplier get there act together to give negative and constructive feedback on the websites and or social media.....
Hit the Bunnings website with your grievances because if effort people do they will do something about the sad sorry state....https://www.bunnings.com.au/contact-us

Cheers, crowie

[seriph1]

Facebook gets their attention

[graham.murfett]

Just a bit of 'letting off steam'

Interestingly, the Bunnings contact/feedback page doesn't have a category for 'product quality' per se

Just sayin'

But, I did leave feedback on their site, otherwise I shouldn't complain ?

[Fuzzie]

Fergy, the OP, is in Brisbane. Although I haven't been up there for a while I'd suggest Finlayson's is the place to go for quality pine. East Brisbane is definitely retail friendly, not sure about Sumner Park.

[DiRob]

if you know anyone who has graded pine in a mill you will find most of the crap sold at the bunnies store is a long way from premium or standard for that matter

[KBs PensNmore]

It's not only Bunnies that sell timber like that, but most of the hardware stores are supplied with this sort of rubbish. I've seen timber come in to my local store, that would be more suitable as a propeller, it was that twisted. 290 mm wide timber that badly cupped it had to be cut down the centre, jointed and glued to be somewhere near useful.
Biggest problem that I see is that demand outstrips supply, so timber isn't being dried properly.

[graham.murfett]

Just a bit of 'letting off steam'

Interestingly, the Bunnings contact/feedback page doesn't have a category for 'product quality' per se

Just sayin'

But, I did leave feedback on their site, otherwise I shouldn't complain ?

I got a response from Bunnings

"I firstly want to thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback on our timber mouldings, I would
like to invite you to catch up with me when you are next in the store just so that we can look at the product
you are referring too so that we can see what we can do about the quality with our suppliers."

Whilst I genuinely appreciate the response, they don't need me to point out what is poor quality.

They should already be able to do that on their own i.e.
would they be happy paying full retail for obviously twisted, cupped, split, damaged stock?

Rhetorical question...

[Squirrel+Nuts]

Agree that their stock quality is rubbish.

The tas oak has bloodlines and marks all over it. A piece of select grade timber dropped from the top of a thirty storey building would have less features.

The species grading within the tas oak stock is iffy as well. One piece looked and felt a hell of a lot like meranti to me. I could have easily marked it just with my fingernail.

Ask some floor staff in the timber section what hardwood they have, they answer only merbau. Dunno what they think a lot of the flooring species are then.


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[Bohdan]

I got a response from Bunnings

Whilst I genuinely appreciate the response, they don't need me to point out what is poor quality.

They should already be able to do that on their own i.e.
would they be happy paying full retail for obviously twisted, cupped, split, damaged stock?

Rhetorical question...

If they have never done any woodwork and have only seen that rubbish they may genuinely not know.