Road bed for hand laid track

[Cjcrescent]

...I'd ask about it at the Contractor Desk in a big box store if you haven't done that already...

Asked at both the big box store chains in the area. Both said the same thing. A minimum order of 50 sheets would have to be ordered, prepaid of course. Cost breakdown from them was fairly equal, at approx. $35 a sheet.

The is one custom lumber yard here that does carry it, I found out. But they want $65 per sheet.

 

[WCWBrassHat]

There is a locator page on the homosote website : http://www.homasote.com/WhereToBuy/

Here is another source for CJ

Interior/Exterior Building Supply
205-322-4880
210 Finley Ave
Birmingham, AL 35204 Stocks 440 SoundBarrier
Will Special Order

I bought a sheet from them about 5 years ago and the price was about the same as a sheet of plywood.

Glenn

 

[waltr]

Since Homasote is a big topic in this thread, has Homabed been considered?
At least one can read about what it takes to use homasote and then compare pricing of Homabed.

http://www.homabed.com/site/890800/page/479102

With all the work involved with making roadbed from large sheets of homasote buying Homabed may be a wiser choice.

 

[Cjcrescent]

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I bought a sheet from them about 5 years ago and the price was about the same as a sheet of plywood.

Glenn

That's the place Glenn. But the price I quoted was from last year. Tom C. and Mike B. from the club, went to chexk out their supply and that was the written quote from them. Its highway robbery on some "special" materials like homasote here.

Its like the old lumberyard that was in Saginaw, (Alabaster). My BIL used to get his cedar and walnut for his furniture making there. But when a 1" x 6" x 8' piece of walnut got to over $50, he stopped getting it there. He now gets his stuff from a small lumberyard near Ashville. Their price is way better even though he has to go another 40-50 miles to get it.

 

[Pete V]

when confronted with really high prices on it in New Mexico, I did buy it and cut it to cork size dimensions, bevelling the edges on the straight stuff with the table saw which took a lot of work but really stretched it out. It also let me use the subgrade all around the L, girders which I came to really like.

Dusty though, really dusty. Wear a respirator

 

[OldGuy]

Other than the typical retail stores, you may want to check out suppliers of products to the concrete construction trades. In my neck of the woods, I could buy strips, cut to my dimension, cheaper than a comparable 4x8 sheet at a big box store. The stuff they sell is used in forming, say, sidewalks, or used as expansion joint material.

They last 4x8 sheets of homosote that I bought, at a discount building material dealer, was listed as bedboard and I paid less than a 4x8 sheet of drywall.