Pressure-treated wood has been around for nearly 70 years, yet most of us still know very little about this popular outdoor building material. To start, pressure-treated wood is softwood lumber, ...

Q: I want to build a raised bed for vegetable gardening this year. However, I have heard a lot of bad publicity about pressure-treated lumber. How safe is it? Is there anything else that will last as ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — If you’re planning to build a deck, planter, fence or picnic table with pressure-treated lumber, you may want to reconsider. This popular lumber — known as CCA-treated wood — will ...

Q. Am trying to decide whether to use pressure-treated decking or composite as a replacement for my deck, which is 11 years old. Being in the “Elderly Class,” we do not use the deck with any great ...

Pressure treatment forces chemical preservatives into the cellular structure of wood. These chemicals are undesirable in mulch or compost, so if your scrap lumber is lined with tiny holes or stained ...

Q. I ripped up the old boards on my deck and replaced them with new pressure-treated boards. Now that they’ve had time to dry out, I’m about stain the deck, but I’ve discovered that a handful of ...

Last week we talked about cleaning and staining the garage floor and taking care of all the cracks. So I got a few questions after that about wooden decks -- especially the pressure-treated wood decks ...

A shortage in pressure-treated lumber is causing a number of outdoor home improvement projects to be shelved this summer. “People have been calling here who live an hour away,” said John Kalife at ...

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Forest Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UFPI) is proud to announce a distribution agreement for the CAMO® Hidden Deck Fastening System, a product of National ...

Q. I have a deck that was constructed from pressure treated wood. The deck is about 8-10 years old. I have lived in the house for 6-7 years. The former owners never waterproofed the deck or cleaned it ...