Monthly Retail Open Days | Woodlouse Industries

Monthly Open Days for smaller makers and hobby craft

We hold "Retail Rummage" Open Days
on the last Friday and Saturday of most months
Upcoming dates below-

Our retail open days are a great opportunity to explore the wider variety of

UK grown hardwood and softwood timbers

If you're looking for a specific piece to use in an interior project, some stock for furniture and other projects, woodturning blanks, or just wanting to experiment with something a little different, please come along.

We have individual boards from small scale to large slabs, we also have project packs of small, mixed size boards, usually costing from £40 to £100.

There's also a large crate of mixed offcut sections for digging into, priced at £4 each or £10 for 3 pieces.

There's always a large selection of useful chunky boards for shelving, desktops, benches, coat racks, window sills as well as bar and table tops. In fact, we specifically cut lower grade urban softwoods at the same thickness as scaffold planks, just to carry out those interesting knotty projects that reclaimed timber is often used for.

For external use, we often have cladding and tree stakes available, as well as rustic slabwood for cladding treehouses, cabins, and compost bins.

For the fans of reclamation and upcycling, there's a section of reclaimed timber items, slate, metalwork, glass, and a few older unfinished projects at discounted prices that need some refurbishment.

Species to hand often include:
-Oak -Beech -Ash -Larch -Cypress -Norway or Field Maple -Yew -Walnut -Douglas Fir

-Sequoia (Giant Redwood) -Elm -Sweet Chestnut -Pear -Lime -Cedar (Western Red & Lebanon) -Burr timber -Spalted timber

Some of our Retail Stock

Elm Boards

We hold a good stock of Elm planking, sourced from urban tree removals in the Brighton and Hove are

Yew, the Queen of The Downs

Yew is such an iconic, gnarly characterful timber. Always popular, and ours comes from Downland estates and private garden trees.

English Oak, locally grown

Us Brits are obsessed with Oak, sometimes it seems that if it's going to be a bespoke project for a rural property, it "has to be Oak"

Poplar

It's unusual to see Poplar being promoted as a sawn timber, but we've currently got lots from an urban site in Petworth. A great timber for finishing in a tactile way using interesting stain and wax techniques.

Douglas Fir and Sweet Chestnut

Great growers in the South East, and both really excellent as alternatives to Oak in timber frames and building construction.

Elm endgrain "cookie" discs

Log discs have been very popular as decorative pieces over the years, we always have a good selection, large and small, unfinished or sanded or fully finished like this Elm.

Walnut

There's not much of it about locally, though we do have some boards from smaller garden trees.

Rustic Scaffold Boards

We always have a good stock of 38mm chunky boarding, usually sawn from urban conifers that would otherwise end up as biomass power station fuel!
These are a fantastic, affordable way to fill a space with interesting timber, and often get used for shop and cafe fit outs, shepherds huts and rural cabin detailing.

English Ash/ Olive Ash

Sadly, huge quantities of Ash are being felled at the moment due to the hazards associated with Ash Dieback disease.
Even more sad is that there isn't a greater appreciation for this wonderfully versatile hardwood timber.

Smaller Ash tree are creamy white right the way through, while larger trees usually end up with a gorgeous marbled brown interior known as Olive Ash.

Pear

Pear and the fruitwoods are beautiful and super dense. Currently we have some stock, no idea if that will ever get replaced!

Cypress Boards

We're fans of "aromatic" softwoods, the conifers that tend to have pungent internal aromas, rather than the gooey sap of Pines and Spruces.

They are often extremely fast drying, stable (very little warping), and are naturally very durable outside. Ideal for outdoor seating, bar tops, as well as for forest schools, learning areas and play equipment.

Finished Furniture

We often have prototype and one-off pieces for sale, such as this Sweet Chestnut bench that uses a locally fabricated black powder coat steel frame.

Planed timber

We sell a mix of finished timbers that are either sanded or planed.

They are a little more expensive than those with a rough sawn finish, but the heavy donkey work has been done for you.

Wood Turning Blanks

We have a growing selection of finished blanks for bowl and spindle turning, and are looking into providing lengths of timber for knife and tool handle making.

Offcuts also available.

Current timbers include: Beech, Ash, Poplar, Oak, Spalted Beech, Burr Oak, Elm, Sweet Chestnut.

Kiln Drying

Our dehumidifier kiln is used on an occasional basis to batch dry larger packs for trade orders. Any spare capacity is used to finish dry a selection of different timbers.

Slabwood/ Rustic cladding

We select out the tidier outer offcut slabs when we're milling softwood logs. These are available for sale and have been used as treehouse cladding, hot tub screens on glamping sites, garden path edging, compost bays, log sheds.

We're sure you'll find an interesting use!

Monthly Open Days for smaller makers and hobby craft

We hold "Retail Rummage" Open Days on the last Friday and Saturday of most months Upcoming dates below-

Some of our Retail Stock

We hold "Retail Rummage" Open Days
on the last Friday and Saturday of most months
Upcoming dates below-