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Solid oak railway sleepers cut to your bespoke sizes. Order bespoke Fresh Sawn Oak Sleepers suitable for landscaping cut to your requirements. Enter your sizes below and buy online.
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Our European Oak sleepers are fresh sawn and cut to the sizes you need. They have many uses including:
- Building a retaining wall
- Bordering flower beds and water features
Oak Sleeper Grading
Please be aware that sleepers are more of a utility product rather than decorative. Compared to our constructional grade oak beams, it is normal for sleeper-grade oak to contain sapwood, bark and waney edges, knots, ring-shakes, pith, cracks, splits and checking.
Please be aware of how sleepers are graded, and what is normal and acceptable within the sleeper quality grading. If you need more perfection in your oak, please look at our constructional grade oak beams.
Sleepers are suitable for projects such as raised beds and retaining walls. Sleeper grade oak should not be used structurally in buildings (even for garden structures) or for joinery. For structural grade oak, see our Fresh Sawn Structural Oak page.
These oak sleepers are yellowish brown in colour when they are supplied and they contain wane, sap and knots which gives the timber plenty of character. As your sleepers age and keep in direct contact with sunlight they will start to weather and turn silvery grey. The natural silver-grey colour that the timber goes to is usually the look people go for when buying sleepers and it takes time achieve.
European Oak is one of the most durable timbers available so you will get the most out of the timber however you decide to use it.
Oak Sleeper Grade Compared to other Beam Grades
It's important to know the grade of oak you're purchasing when buying sleepers.
Unlike the constructional grade timber, there are no industry-standard grading rules for Oak Sleepers. Each sawmill has its own specification as to what's acceptable. Here is what iWood's mills allow in sleeper grade compared to oak beam grades:
| Grade | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| QPA | Highest quality, most knot free, grade of oak beam we offer, suitable for construction | |
| QP1 | Second highest quality, more knots than QPA, also suitable for construction | |
| QP2 | A lower grade of oak beam allowing multiple defects | |
 | Sleeper | A lower grade than QP2 where the following is allowed:
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Oak Sleeper Sizes
We supply Oak sleepers in section sizes of between 100mm x 150mm and 300mm x 300mm with lengths between 1.2m and 3m.
Please note, as is industry-standard, our oak sleepers are not exactly cross-cut to length and are provided over-length to be cut down on site.
If you enter the following settings into the calculator above, this is the price you will get.
Fresh Sawn Sleeper: 100mm x 200mm x 2.4m - £51.46 INC VAT (£42.88 EX VAT)
(Product #: IW-38-32-18);
Fresh Sawn Sleeper
Product Code: IW-38-32-18
Specify Fresh Sawn Sleeper European Oak Planed All Round from iWood Timber
How long do our deliveries take?
We get the very best timber directly from sawmills, because of this deliveries usually take place around 10 to 15 (15 to 20 for Air Dried)
How our orders for wood work
Once your secure order is placed, you should get an email that confirms exactly what you've ordered. Once we receive you're order from our sawmill and wood suppliers and we're ready to ship it out to you, we'll give you a call to confirm a delivery with you.
Call our seasoned sales team on 01889 597281.
Send us a message through our Contact Form.
Email your cutting list to enquiries@iwood.co.uk
