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Thread: identifying type of pine?
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30th September 2007, 02:24 PM #1
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identifying type of pine?
Can anyone help?
I have these floorboards... are they radiata pine? I need to buy some extraboards for a water damaged patch near the bathroom and I am not sure what to get?
How does one determine the different types of pine, they all look so similar to me?
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30th September 2007, 02:54 PM #2
A bit hard to say definitively but it could also be Cypress. A lot of Cypress was used in NSW (and presumably in the ACT) for flooring. My last house in Sydney had Cypress floors.
Define damaged? If they are just water marks they will sand out. Obviously rot is another problem.
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30th September 2007, 03:13 PM #3
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I think it is just water damage... but there is distinct rot in the skirting so it is hard to tell at the moment (haven't taken the carpet in that area up). I am just trying to decide what my options are at the moment. If it is cypress pine, is that hard to find?
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30th September 2007, 04:32 PM #4
It's Radiata Pine.
It's easy to find, in fact, it grows on trees
When polished it looks like this
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30th September 2007, 07:41 PM #5
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RAdiata is my vote.
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30th September 2007, 07:47 PM #6
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thanks everyone, how does one tell the difference between cypress and radiata?
Tara
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30th September 2007, 09:00 PM #7
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30th September 2007, 09:14 PM #8
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thanks Tools. Does anyone know where there are pictures of the various pine floors? There should be a big image gallery somewhere for people like me! Ha.
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30th September 2007, 11:10 PM #9
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30th September 2007, 11:30 PM #10
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cheers Dusty. Every pic on google images looks completely different. I am not doing so well spotting the difference. But I might just get a radiata floor board and bring it home to check.
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30th September 2007, 11:36 PM #11
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1st October 2007, 08:12 AM #12
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sorry guys, I wasn't trying to be offensive and not beleive you. I beleive you, I was just interested in general of how to tell the difference.
I really appreciate all your help. Thanks!
Tarantula
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1st October 2007, 01:48 PM #13
I think you misunderstood Skew. He was just saying that your idea was a good idea regardless of what we think as photos can be misleading.
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