Blame the courts...any judge with half a brain should have dismissed such crap with prejudice...
If I were Lowe’s I would tell Kalifornia to go to Hell and get your own lumber. Then I would close everyone of the stores. Let the idiots find wood machined to their idea of correctness.
So this only targeted Lowes? What about all the others out there? Mom and Pops, local lumber yards, and Homo Depot, etc...?
This is a silly ruling fit for a silly stupid judge. Just another case of someone milking the system. I have bought many 2x4s to build a house and garage and shed and didn’t have any problems with buying standard building 2x4s. Judges and lawyers sometimes ‘go together like love and marriage’.
The word is nonminal.
What about the 1x3, the 1x2 1x4, 2x2, 2x56, 2x8, 2x10, 2x12, looks like there is more money to be made here.
And they would be so much better now that I know my tape measure is not really warped.
I was once on a job that the specs called for 3/4” plywood. It was not my trade, but the carpenter used “3/4” “ plywood that is, in reality, about 1/16” thinner than that. The douchebag building inspector made them remove the offending plywood and replace it with special-order-shipped-from-the-Pacific-Northwest-honest-to-God 3/4” plywood at great expense to the contractor. Calling the inspector an idiot would be charitable.
If you're that stupid, then you ought to be making things out of Play-Doh, not wood.
When Sawing as a head sawyer in a very large mill...we sawed it 7 quarter...not 8 quarter. 7 quarter is exactly that..7 quarters or 1 and 3/4 inches. It was dried to about 25% and then sent through a planner skimming off just enough to make it smooth.
The width was cut by a gang saw...3 and 3/4 inches. Or, the cants were cut 16 quarter and the thickness was cut 7 quarter by the gang saw.
Wait until they see my law suit against the producers of “The Never Ending Story.”
I am also suing the makers of Rose Milk and peanut butter. That stuff is neither milk nor butter and it really messed up my cookie recipe.
I am also suing the manufacturers of “all in one skin care products;” it doesn’t work on ebola or third degree burns.
I am also shocked to learn that fruit bats are not made out of fruit, there are no Germans in my German Chocolate cake, that isn’t lava in my lava lamp, and don’t even ask about my Boston Cream Pie.
Anyone who has ever been around a piece of lumber knows the true milled dimensions of a 2x4.
our court system has deteriorated to the point that it is becomng useless....how long has a 2X4 been l.5 X3.5 thirty years???longer???....the court system should either throw out these ridiculous suits, or settle them for $1.00
What I want to know is, who at Lowes donated to a republican cause. Home Depot or any number of lumber sellers have been calling the 3.5 x 1.5 a two by four for as long as I’ve been alive, and I’m sure well beyond that. Are they paying too?
Lowe’s can start charging 10 cents per 10d nail then. They will comply with this mandatory directive from the bench and make their $1.6M back off the same ignorant people that would sue them.