Originally Posted by wakelagger

My Dad and I were at home depot buying red cedar planks to replace the well-worn spots on his deck. When we were picking the wood, we'd check how straight the boards were, and it was abysmal. They were twisted, bent, and all over the place. Crosby could've picked one up and scored a goal with it. But I digress. Anyways, as we were picking the few decent 2 x 6's, a contractor came by mentioning how he ordered some of red cedar for delivery for a deck a few days ago. of the 72 boards he ordered, he had to send back 40 because the warpage was too intense for the sober mind. Just as a test, he marked the boards he sent back with a pencil mark on the ends. Low and behold, those boards were the ones we were sifting through that day.
Does Home Depot actually think someone wants a higher end wood like red cedar to be twisted like charles manson?