Halswell Timber is a family-owned timber yard at 193 Halswell Road in Halswell, Christchurch. The website says Peter and Barbara Stuart bought the business in January 1997. It sells a wide range of timber species directly to the public, along with standard pre-run profiles such as weatherboards, flooring, panelling, skirting and mouldings. The yard has its own machine shops, which can make custom profiles, and a pre-priming paint line on site. There is a showroom to see the timber, and a calculator on the website works out the lineal metres a project needs. The website also says the yard has new stock of red oak, white ash and walnut, with pricing on enquiry.
Shoppers praise the team as professional, friendly and bubbly, and the range of timber. One customer had native totara made into a chopping board, which was planed and sanded to a fine finish. Views are mixed. One customer who ordered skirting boards found them rough and not to the stated dimensions, and spent days sanding them.