Hardwood architraves wanted

[Handyman]

Anyone tell me where I can obtain hardwood architraves, cills, and 1"x0.5" stripwood? Needs to be Sapele (if that's how you spell it) or similar in lengths of up to 2.2m (but not a vast quantity, I might add).

It's for repairs to hardwood-frame in which UPC double glazing is mounted. Nobody down here in West Country can supply or even knows where I can get it from.

 

[breezer]

google?

 

[Jasonb]

Sapele will have to be machined for you . Travis Perkins and most other timber merchants carry Meranti mouldings which will look just like sapele.

Jason

 

[Handyman]

Thank you JasonB. I've tried TP, Jewsons, and other local merchants, but they all say that they have to buy in a billet of timber, make up suitiable cutters for the cross-section I want (which is standard softwood architrave pattern), and machine up what I want. This makes it prohibitively expensive. e.g. £300 for about 20m moulding.

 

[Thermo]

try any of your local joinery workshops in the yellow pages. you may have to ring around a few, but some will turn out the stuff for you and at a reasonable price.

 

[david and julie]

Thank you JasonB. I've tried TP, Jewsons, and other local merchants, but they all say that they have to buy in a billet of timber, make up suitiable cutters for the cross-section I want (which is standard softwood architrave pattern), and machine up what I want. This makes it prohibitively expensive. e.g. £300 for about 20m moulding.

They may of said this if you have asked specifically for sapele. I had a similar problem when I wanted ash mouldings. As Jason said though, Meranti is very common and is stocked at many timber yards and is almost the same as sapele in appearance. I even think B&Q stock it, about 1"x about 3/8" in the Richard Burbridge rack(at a price!)