RE: [nafex] So pressure-treated lumber will go off the market in 2003?

["Erdman, Jim" <erdmanj@uwstout.edu>]

My understanding is that the arsenic-based pressure treatment is the one
that will be banned, and I know that there are other "safer" systems of
treatment available.  I'm not sure what there status will be.
I remember almost 30 years ago that there was a lot of controversy about the
arsenic-based treatment, which was new at the time, and I felt that a lot of
the safety questions were never satisfactorily resolved.  At the time, I
worked for the state division that checked commercial building plans for
building code compliance, and we were thoroughly investigating this new
product.

Jim Erdman (Menomonie, WI)

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Paradise
To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 4/12/02 12:22 AM
Subject: [nafex] So pressure-treated lumber will go off the market in 2003?

So pressure-treated lumber will go off the market in 2003?
Well what is to be hoped is that natural rot resistant woods chestnut
and black locust will finally make it into the lumber yards and Home
Depots
and be readily available.
One is good for acid-soil contact, the other for alkaline-soil contact
[I forget which]
There are chestnut railroad ties more than a hundred years old I
observed in contact with the ground all that time.  Not in perfect
condition
anymore, but still wood and still there.
Charles Paradise
Concord MA

Sam Franc wrote:

> I don't know the chemistry of it but I would not be concerned about
> uptake from that wood.
> Tests that I have seen have shown that the uptake from even new
treated
> lumber is very minimal.
> After next year your ? will be moot.
> You will not be able to buy treated lumber any more.
> The feds have struck again.
> We are all wondering what the construction industry is going to do for
> plate stock then.
> There is not enough redwood or cedar on the market or in the woods to
> make up the difference.
> Sam
>
> Thomas Olenio wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This may sound like a ddumb question, but here goes...
> >
> > If you have 1 gallon of 20-20-20 liquid fertilizer and 1 more gallon
of
> > water, do you then have 2 gallons of 10-10-10?
> >
> > Second question...
> >
> > How safe would it be to construct a raised bed from used, very old,
> > pressure treated lumber?  I have some pressure treated lumber that
is part
> > of a sandbox that was outgrown, and left if the weather.  Does not
look
> > very pressure treated anymore.  Opinions?
> >
> > Would linging the inside with plastic be sufficient (soil never
touched
> > old wood)?
> >
> > Later,
> > Tom
> >
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