![]() Then the remaining top wet boards start to dry and warp, and get tossed aside when the next customer arrives. ![]() The treated-wood buying public pick through the top warped boards, to get to the wet, straight ones below. I've long felt it would be a paying thing if lumber-yards would sticker their incoming treated lumber, and avoid the waste that they get now. In addition, I pulled out all the heartwood radius-edged boards and sent them back to the yard. When time came to lay those boards, all went very well. I followed DanG's advice when having a deck built several years ago, and had the deck boards delivered a couple months in advance. Those were used to make a temporary fence for the goats we don't have anymore, and I'm going to tear it down soon, so I'll see how they held up. The landscape timbers I have bought.last ones were about 5 years ago.always said. 40 and their tags state that it is ok for ground contact. 4x and larger is almost always treated to. 25 and the tags plainly state that it isn't for ground contact. I've been reading tags for a long time, and here's what I've seen in the past: 1x and 2x lumber is almost always treated to. I sure do see a lot of crappy looking decks around. Hardly anybody wakes up one morning and decides to build a deck that day, but most wait until time to start building to get their lumber. If ya want a good project, have the lumberyard open a fresh bundle and only take the stuff from the inside, then stack/sticker like you would lumber from your mill. The top will dry faster than the bottom and it will try to curl up. Same goes if you nail it onto a deck while it is wet. If you take the finest of lumber, soak it through with water, then dead-stack it in the sun, it will move a lot. It is made that way by poor handling after it leaves the plant. Y'all check around your lumberyards and BB stores when you're there and do a little tag reading, OK? The Better Business Bureau could very easily get involved here. 40? If he don't know, I'll ask him to read the tag to me. Whaddaya bet they answer "yes"? If so, I'm gonna ask what strength they're treated to. I'm going to call HD tomorrow and ask if they have any pressure treated landscape timbers. These were produced by Great Southern Woods in Georgia, the "Yellawood" folks. I checked the sign by them and it does not say that they are pressure treated, though they look for all the world like they are. Today, I stopped by Home Depot where they were purchased, and they still have them out there for sale. I had to get a magnifying glass to read the blurry fine print where it say's that they are "surface coated" with ACQ, and NOT pressure treated. I noticed that they didn't seem to have any green color on the inside, not even around the edges, so I fished one of the little tags out of the trash and tried to read it. I didn't want to do it, but he's a good friend, so I did. Last week a friend brought over a couple of newly purchased landscape timbers and asked me to rip them for him on the table saw.
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