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Treated Wood Info

dimkoffg

Bill Tindall - Late, but hopefully still useful. The label from wood available in Southern California:


An example of "incising" that you previously mentioned:


And an example of how "effective" treatment is and how important it is to locally treat all cuts:


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that lumber is barely treated

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

I spoke to the YellarWood manufacturering people. Their first step quality control is to core and add a reagent that detects copper. They expect UC4A to be penetrated to the core of 1.5 " lumber.

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