I live in Fort Bragg, Calif. Redwood Country...I checked and a 14' 2x6 runs
about 25.00 or about 1.81 per ft. It is a 3rd growth product, and not like
#1 rdwd. Although it has many of the characteristics of # 1 rdwd...It is
not a tight grain, but large grain wood where the sunlight has gotten to it
after logging and grew fast.

Cedar is nice, and I do not mind the knots.
My property has large rdwds but I do not want to mill them.

Then again there is Fiberon, Trex, and the other composites.......
Plastic garbage bags, sawdust, glue.......yum. I have built many decks with
that material also.........

Like natural wood though.
jloomis

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Hope you all don't mind but I finally finished the Redwood Deck.

Footwise, the redwood very expensive? I'm kind of jealous that you seem to
have easy access to it.

I'm just in the process of building something for a friend and had to
settle
on knotty cedar at $2.17 a foot for the 2x6" cedar. The knot free cedar
was
$6.00+ a foot and redwood locally would cost more than that. There's no
way
in hell I'm going to spend $1000 to build a cedar picnic table.