Where can i buy oak wood from?

paddymorgan27 · Post by **paddymorgan27** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:59 pm

hi all !
i need to find somewhere in the helsinki area where they sell oak.
ie oak beams, planks all diffrent sizes... i suppose the ideal place would be a salvage yard, or a building materials recliamers yard. if there is such a place ???. Thanks =)

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paddymorgan27 · Post by **paddymorgan27** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:24 pm

Thanks for the info,
but i am kind of intrested in those warehouses that have all kinds of old bits and bobs.
Like a reclaimers.
I Did hear of such a place in Helsinki that has all kinds of recycled building materials .
Any further info would be great. =)

A11an · Post by **A11an** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:30 pm

It is probably not appropriate but they might be able to point you in the right direction, if you looking for genuine old stuff there is a place in Porvoo ( 50 km form Helsinki ) that sells ' used stuff' or ' old ' hardware spares :

http://www.porvoonwanharautakauppa.fi/index.html

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:43 pm

And Fiskars also has one of those recycle places.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:45 am

Pursuivant wrote:And Fiskars also has one of those recycle places.

Actually it's in Billnäs. They sell doors and windows and stuff like that but would probably know where to get the reclaimed timber. The place is called the Rakennus Apteeki or something like that. I tried to google but couldn't find it. They have odd opening hours, so don't drive all that way without calling first. We got some old windows for the cabin from there last year. Cost us a fraction of the price for new ones... but we spent the whole of the summer trying to scrape the paint off and get them in good shape. Hopefully we'll get them in soon. Bit dark in the log cabin with no windows

Oak only grows along the south coast and maybe 100km in land...(?) so there isn't much growing naturally and it grows ever so slowly up here. If you do find some oak, chances are it isn't Finnish.

jhnn · Post by **jhnn** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:06 am

The place is called the Rakennus Apteeki or something like that.

Did you mean this place? Seems you can order things on the internet as well
http://www.rakennusapteekki.fi/suomeksi ... yhteys.asp

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:15 am

http://www.rakennusapteekki.fi

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:57 am

Yes, that's the place. They also sell reproduction fixtures and fittings, wallpapers, stoves etc but the prices are

enk · Post by **enk** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:40 am

another place you can get that kind of stuff without the jacked up prices is
http://www.rakennusluuppi.fi/

-enk

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