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What a pallet becomes when it stops being a pallet
De-nailed deck boards, trimmed runners, kindling and colored landscape mulch — the last three stops in a wooden pallet's life, and none of them is a landfill.
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RePallet Co. sells reclaimed pallet lumber — de-nailed deck boards, stringers and runners — plus ground landscape mulch, playground fibre and animal bedding from its Denver yard.
Boards are sold by the bundle and sorted by length; mulch is sold by the cubic yard, loaded or delivered. Everything here came out of a pallet that could not be repaired.
Lumber grades we recover
| Product | Typical dimensions | Sold as | Common uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deck boards, long | 40" x 5.5" x 0.6" | Bundles of 50 | Cladding, furniture, shelving |
| Deck boards, short | 22" – 34" | Bundles of 75 | Crafts, crate sides, small builds |
| Stringers / runners | 48" x 3.5" x 1.5" | Bundles of 25 | Landscape edging, framing, crate runners |
| Block components | 4" x 4" x 3.5" | Loose by weight | Spacers, dunnage, craft |
| Mixed short stock | Under 20" | Loose by weight | Kindling, smoker wood, craft |
| Landscape mulch | Ground, screened | Cubic yard | Beds, paths, weed suppression |
| Playground fibre | Ground, screened, fines removed | Cubic yard | Play surfaces |
| Animal bedding | Fine ground, dust-extracted | Cubic yard or bale | Stables, kennels |
The character question
Reclaimed pallet wood is not reclaimed barn wood, and anyone selling it as such is selling you a story. Pallet lumber is young, mixed-species, nail-marked and often stencilled. That is exactly why people want it — but it means you should plan for variability rather than be surprised by it.
- Expect mixed species in a bundle. Oak next to poplar next to gum. Staining will differ; that is the look.
- Nail holes are permanent. They can be filled, but they cannot be removed. Design with them.
- Thickness varies by up to 3 mm within a bundle. Plane if you need consistency, and buy 15% extra.
- Moisture content is ambient. Let it acclimatise indoors for two weeks before building furniture.
- Some boards carry stencils and heat-treatment stamps. Many customers consider these a feature.
For the mulch side of the business, including dye options and coverage arithmetic, see colored mulch.
Working with reclaimed pallet lumber
Reclaimed pallet wood is genuinely good material with genuinely specific quirks. Most disappointing results come from treating it like dimensioned lumber from a merchant.
| Characteristic | What it means | How to work with it |
|---|---|---|
| Mixed species | Oak next to poplar next to gum | Design for contrast, or sort before cutting |
| Thickness varies ±3 mm | Boards are not dimensionally identical | Plane to the thinnest, or design with the variation |
| Nail holes | Permanent, sometimes with iron staining | Fill, or treat as character |
| Ambient moisture | 14 – 22% in Colorado | Sticker indoors for 2 – 3 weeks before building |
| Length 40" or 48" | No long stock exists | Design within it; jointing long panels will not stay flat |
| Occasional stencils and HT stamps | Provenance marks | Most customers consider these a feature |
| ~70% usable yield | Rejects, cupping, damage | Buy 15% more than you calculate |
Safety, provenance and what we exclude
Pallet wood has a slightly overblown reputation for being hazardous and one genuinely important exclusion. Being precise about it is more useful than being reassuring.
- HT-stamped wood is safe. Heat treatment is a thermal process that adds nothing to the timber.
- Unstamped domestic pallets are usually simply untreated. Domestic US freight has no treatment requirement.
- MB-stamped wood never enters our streams. Methyl bromide fumigation; rejected at the gate.
- No CCA-treated, creosoted or painted timber in any bundle we sell.
- No wood from a load with a contamination history. Chemical staining is a rejection, not a discount.
- Every board passes a metal detector after de-nailing. One missed staple destroys a set of planer knives.
- Nothing from regulated supply chains gets resold as lumber — food, pharmaceutical and cannabis provenance is not something we can fully document.
What we cannot tell you
We cannot tell you what a specific pallet carried before it reached us. What we can tell you is what the batch's source industry was, and we exclude entire categories rather than guessing at individual units. If a project needs documented provenance, the answer is new timber, and we will say so.
Buying in volume: bundles, pricing and delivery
| Product | Bundle | Price | Coverage / use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deck boards, long (40") | 50 boards | $78 – $105 | ≈ 90 sq ft of cladding |
| Deck boards, short (22" – 34") | 75 boards | $62 – $84 | Crafts, crate sides |
| Stringers / runners (48") | 25 pieces | $54 – $72 | Framing, edging |
| Block components | By weight | $0.28 / lb | Spacers, dunnage, turning |
| Mixed short stock | By weight | $0.16 / lb | Kindling, smoker wood |
| Bulk pallet lumber | Per pallet load | $180 – $260 | Volume projects |
- Collection from the yard during weekday hours and Saturday mornings. Bring straps.
- Delivery across the metro from three bundles up, or with any pallet order at no extra freight.
- Sorting to a tone is available on request for cladding projects — we pull for colour and charge for the time.
- Planing we do not offer; we sell it de-nailed and rough, which is what most makers want.
- Samples are free. Take three boards and see what they do in your workshop before you buy ninety.
For projects over about 500 board feet, ask rather than ordering bundles. We can often pull from a specific batch and get you far more consistency than a mixed bundle will give you.
Questions people actually ask
Is pallet wood safe for indoor furniture?
Can I collect small quantities?
How much mulch do I need?
Do you deliver mulch?
Can I get reclaimed boards in a consistent colour?
Do you deliver small quantities of mulch?
Is the lumber kiln dried?
Can I buy whole pallets to break down myself?
What is the widest board available?
Let's keep your pallets in the loop
Whether you have 40 broken cores behind the dock or need 4,000 Grade A pallets a month, the conversation starts the same way.