Checking materials availability
To check materials availability, phone around to find out who has good supplies. If enquiries are being made through suppliers other than the usual ones, alternative sources of information are the Yellow Pages, timber industry sources or other known suppliers.
When phoning you can also ask about the quality of material available. For example, if the material required is mainly building quality pine, the quality may need to be queried if the timber is for wall studs. If structural beams are to be used, then Glulam or structural oregon may be used.