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• Channel Lumber’s custom mill crafts exact matches of moldings, patterns, and siding, with a specialty in historical patterns.
• The custom projects division builds and assembles to order and delivers straight to the job site.
• Over half a century of Bay Area experience in lumber, custom milling, and assembly.

Channel Lumber has served the Bay Area with lumber, custom milling, and assembly for more than 50 years. That experience is most visible in the custom mill, where a missing molding or a piece of siding that no store carries can be reproduced as an exact match. Channel specializes in historical patterns, including projects others have written off as impossible.

Renovation and restoration work often depends on materials that are hard to source. Channel carries lumber for projects of nearly any scale, from forming a bridge over the bay to matching an intricate molding on a Victorian home. Matching siding can be milled to order, and every standard siding pattern is made in house.

Custom work extends well beyond trim. Channel’s custom projects division builds and assembles to order, and the delivery fleet, the largest lumber delivery fleet in the Bay Area, brings finished pieces directly to the job site.

An Exact Match for What Was There

When a piece falls off a house and the search for a replacement comes up empty, Channel can duplicate the original or build exactly what the project calls for. Whether the need is a specific molding, a particular pattern, or matching siding, the mill’s craftsmen handle everything from fine detail work to large custom timbers, finished with the precision that detailed projects require.

Custom Built and Delivered to the Job Site

Channel’s Custom Milling & Assembly division produces heavy duty crane mats and pads, concrete form panels, pedestrian barricade panels, gawk shields, coil racks, and versatile sand jacks. Custom services are taken by request, and Channel’s craftsmen build, assemble, and deliver directly to the site.

To discuss a custom milling or restoration project, contact Channel Lumber to get started.

FAQ

What equipment does Channel Lumber’s mill use?
The mill is equipped with resaws, a planer, molders, and trim saws, along with profile grinders, band saws, drilling, and chainsaws. The division also produces corbels and knee braces.

Does Channel Lumber carry FSC-certified wood?
Yes. Channel Lumber has the largest inventory of FSC-certified wood products in the United States.

Can Channel Lumber work with a project’s architects and engineers?
Yes. Channel aims to bring architects, engineers, and project managers in from the beginning, sharing product availability and performance early to help avoid costly delays. Learn more about architect and project management consultation.