How much is 0.8m3 of teak

[stranded]

During a slightly sodden conversation with a friend of a friend yesterevening, I was pointed towards a parcel of top grade Burmese teak that I believe arrived by a traditional West Country route. At some point - hopefully a few years away yet - I am going to need to redo our decks. The foaf thought that this parcel would be enough to do the decks (all horizontal surfaces) of my 13.4 x 4m sailboat at 12mm thickness - doesn’t sound enough to me but frankly I don’t really have a clue. A figure of £9,000 was mentioned. Can’t think of a better question than “how does this sound”?

 

[penfold]

That's approximately double what you'll need to do your boat going by the info supplied(13.4x4, 12mm thick and all horizontal surfaces.) I have assumed no wastage, which is a ridiculous assumption but I'm not a joiner nor a sawyer and have no idea what wastage would be appropriate.

 

[debenriver]

A lot depends on what size and grain orientation the teak boards are. Typical traditional teak decking boards were often 2.5" x 5" vertical grain. This meant that they had to be sawn and re-sawn to get, say, 50mm x 12mm vertical grain boards for yacht decking, which does make for quite a lot of waste in the saw cuts – perhaps 3mm per cut.

So to calculate how much you need in terms of m³ you need to know what size the boards are and what the grain orientation is. For example out of a 2.5" x 5" board you would only get two 50mm x 2.5" boards, which would then each re-cut into probably four 12mm deck planks. So eight planks from each decking board.

Obviously you can improve things by tailoring your deck planking profile to suit the original boards more economically.

Cheers -- George

 

[lexi]

Watch it is not Plantation Teak as that can be way inferior. I have worked that and it is rather soft and may not last that long. Price of timber is shocking ..... 12 grand a cube! Last I used European Oak was 4 years ago and paid £1600 a cube top grade