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The Channel Lumber Story...

Channel Lumber Company, a Bay Area commercial lumber business, takes pride in its reputation built by providing customers with high quality products and outstanding service for over half a century.

Our Facility...

Our 14-acre facility is conveniently located in Richmond, California. We offer the extensive inventory, product versatility, prompt delivery, and superior service that you need to make your projects successful.

Our Fleet...

On any day, you can see Channel Lumber's distinctive yellow trucks on the roads from Santa Rosa to Santa Cruz, Stockton to San Francisco, and everywhere in between. We have the largest lumber delivery fleet in the Bay Area delivering the material our customers need.

Our Yard...

Channel provides a yard fully stocked with timbers, dimensional lumber, plywood, treated lumber and plywood, crane mats, crating materials, hardware, and much more.

Our Mill...

The mill at our facility is equipped with re-saws, a planer, molders, and trim saws. This enables us to manufacture material to your particular specifications. Have a special need? Our mill can fulfill it. From fine detail work to ripping large timbers, our highly trained craftsmen can turn out special orders with precision and speed. If we don't stock what you need, we will make it!

Our Commitment...

We are committed to giving you the high quality products and superior customer service that you deserve.

Our staff strives daily to meet this commitment. From quick price quotes, to pulling orders from our vast inventory for regular drop shipments. From sizing large timbers or precutting fire blocks and cripples, to building reinforced pallets or panels; Channel offers you the knowledgeable staff and one-stop shopping convenience to fill all of your lumber needs.

We have the proven expertise to help you get your project successfully completed on time. Whether you need a single timber, or several truckloads of material, Channel Lumber will handle your orders quickly and efficiently every time.

Thank you for considering Channel Lumber as your prime supplier.

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Timber & Industry...

We carry the Bay Area's largest timber inventory. If it's wood, we stock it. All Channel timbers are acquired exclusively from preferred mills that meet our high quality standards. All #1 and better stock is stored rough and then it is surfaced to order before delivery, enabling us to provide you with a clean, unweathered surface.

The core of our timber products is Douglas Fir Structural / #1 and better, available in any size up to 12" X 16" -- 44' long. We also carry Douglas Fir #2 and better and Redwood Rough Construction Heart timbers, as well as Douglas Fir Structural #3, in 3" X 12"s and 4" X 12"s for lagging. We also offer commercial framing timbers, all types of plywood, including oversized sheets. We regularly stock fire retardant and pressure treated lumber. Custom treatings are also available. With over fifty year's experience in the commercial timber business, we have learned what it takes to satisfy customers. That is why the size and quality of our inventory, our milling facilities, and our service is unparalleled in the industry. We know what you want and we supply it.

Channel serves many industries in addition to commercial construction. This includes many manufacturers who need to safely and efficiently produce, store and transport their products. To provide the products and services that these companies need to meet their production, storage and transportation challenges, Channel maintains one of the largest inventories of Industrial grade lumber in the region.

When you need wood for skids, crates, wedges, and strips to protect your products during production, storage, and shipment, Channel can provide the low cost solution. Our Industrial grade lumber includes Douglas Fir Utility #3 and Douglas Fir Economy #4 in lengths up to 26' ideal for all of your crating and dunnage needs. We also carry a large assortment of Pine #2 and #3 - 1x's as well as Pine #4 1x's and 2x's, in lengths up to 16'. If your plant has limited storage space, we can arrange convenient shipments right to your loading dock.

OSHA approved scaffold planking is another important commodity that Channel stocks. We carry two types of graded scaffold planking. Our OSHA approved Douglas Fir #171A and #171B planks are manufactured from 2" x 12"s specially selected to meet stringent industry standards. We also stock engineered LVL scaffold planks. Because it is constructed from many layers of Douglas Fir veneer, laid up with all grain parallel to the length of the plank, this scaffold plank is lighter, easier to handle, and more durable than conventional lumber, while still being OSHA approved.

 

 

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Millwork...

Our mill is a state-of-the-art facility that has the versatility to turn out jobs of any size. From precutting thousands of board feet of shoring timbers, to matching an intricate molding pattern, if you need something in wood that we don't have, we can make it for you.

Our planer will surface any size lumber, from 1"X4" to 8"X16" timbers, four sides at a time, giving you the benefit of a smooth, unweathered surface. Our highly skilled millworkers have the knowledge and experience to manufacture the patterns you need using our molders, exactly to your specifications. We have an entire wall of common siding pattern knives, including Bevel, Tongue & Groove, Shiplap and Channel Rustic, to name a few.

Cutting custom knives is no problem either. We can even match moldings for Victorian restorations.

Our resaw operators can rip lumber to your size requirements up to an 18" X 23" timber, which is larger than anything most suppliers stock. From resawn siding to a resawn beam, there are no limits to what we can produce.

We will even handle your pre-drilling needs!

 

 

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Special Projects...

In the aftermath of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, a huge section of the Cypress Freeway lay in ruins. People were trapped inside and a way of supporting the extremely heavy, yet very fragile structure was needed immediately. Channel Lumber got the call and provided an immediate solution. Eight truck and trailer loads of timber were delivered to the site to brace the freeway and support its failing structure by nine o'clock that night! Channel Lumber provides solutions to challenges, no matter how urgent or massive the project may be.

Our fleet of radio-dispatched trucks is now outfitted with a GPS system that gives us constant truck locations to better serve you.

When you choose Channel, you get what you need when you need it. From commercial construction to heavy equipment manufacturers, we supply our customers with all of the basic commercial wood products they use in the course of their everyday business.

 

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Manufacturing & Assembly...

In order to be considered a truly full-service lumber yard, manufacturing and assembly services are essential. That is why Channel has a manufacturing and assembly division that provides you with a full range of standard and custom manufacturing and assembly services, tailored to fit your needs. If you need a specialty item, Channel is the company to call. Just ask us, we'll make it for you.

Some of the outstanding products that Channel's manufacturing and assembly division offer include heavy duty crane mats and crane pads, concrete form panels, pedestrian barricade panels, gawk shields, coil racks, and our versatile sand jacks. Not only do we have the ability to provide these specialty products, fully assembled according to your specifications, but the milling of components for these products is also available. We can deliver your custom manufactured item right to your job site.

Whether you need crane mats from 12" X 12" timbers, concrete form finished to hide grain patterns, prefabricated crate sections, or something in between, manufacturing and assembly are all part of the outstanding Channel service.

Channel Lumber provides customers with the outstanding products and superior service they need to make their projects successful. It is what Channel Lumber has done for over half a century and it is what we will continue to do far into the future.

 

 

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Specializing in Heavy Timbers, Re-Saw & Planing Facilities

Manufacturing & Assembly

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100 West Cutting Boulevard

Richmond, California 94804-4002

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