re: Milling Lumber

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I have been in framing lumber sales for 25 years. You will not come out ahead trying to cut it yourself! I have seen tooo many people try. Maybe for a barn but not a house. First off it needs to be kiln dried with heat to kill any termites or any other insects. You will also have a really hard time finding a framer/carpenter to be willing to work with rough cut lumber that is not cut to dimensions they are used to working with. The framing math formulas they know and use are based off perfectly cut nominal dimension lumber. The couple customers that actually did end up using his own milled lumber only used it for the ceiling joist. The framers refused to use it for anything else.

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No doubt the lumber package would be far less expensive, I just don’t like the idea of putting it in a landfill. I’ll be framing myself but even then building door and window frames out of milled lumber would be far more labor intensive than using standard grade stamped lumber. I could mill it to standard sizes but that’s another step in the process. It certainly daunting. I’ve built several houses and it’s daunting enough without adding into milling the lumber.