What type of wood is this, and what could I use it for?

[jamiegw]

I recently purchased a house and this wood was on some of the walls and ceilings. My father in law suggested we could burn it in our oven.

What type of wood is it, and what is it suitable for?

Could it be put through a wood chipper and used as wood chips for a garden path?

Could it be used to build some raised garden beds?

 

[Deleted member 174758]

It's pine match boarding from the look of it. Is it 12 to 16mm thick? Maybe a bit too thin for use in the garden. How about using it to clad walls or ceilings?...

 

[johnny2007]

Chop it up and use it as kindling.
It burns very quickly.

 

[jamiegw]

It's pine match boarding from the look of it. Is it 12 to 16mm thick? Maybe a bit too thin for use in the garden. How about using it to clad walls or ceilings?...

Yeah that's it. Thanks. It was all over the rooms upstairs. Looked like a sauna. I don't want it in the house so I'm not sure where I would use it for cladding. There's loads of it in the barn also which I'm planning on removing this weekend.

Chop it up and use it as kindling.
It burns very quickly.

Good to know. I'll gift some to father in law also.

 

[Koolpc]

Agree, firewood...

 

[robinbanks]

I've used it to build shelves on twin slot railing, clad garden storage, make packers, as flooring in utilitarian places, sawn it up for support sticks for greenhouse plants, for making frames for concrete moulds (not an exhaustive list; just trying to highlight that having clean, good condition, regular sized wood around is handy).. Burning building materials is usually the last thing I'd do with them.

If you're renovating it's always useful to have a pile of random stuff lying around until the very end of the job; better that way than ripping it off, burning it, then two months later thinking "oh, I just need some short lengths of wood to hold this insulation in place" or "if I had a bit of batten to screw between these studs to mount the new sockets on" and having to go and buy some to replace what you got rid of recently..