Re: Composite or Plastic Decking?
Theres your problem, I worked for 11 years for a company that happened to be the largest lumber treater in the country. If I remember right (I normally do) southern pine is the only truly treatable species. Everything else is treated to refusal and will rot. There are lumber yards around here that sell treated red pine, but I will not install there products. Also if possible get the ones with arsinic. The replacement treatements (AC2, AcQ are highly corrosive and less effective. I can usually get treated southern pine for about the same price as non-treated syp, at least in MI.
Good Luck
Theres your problem, I worked for 11 years for a company that happened to be the largest lumber treater in the country. If I remember right (I normally do) southern pine is the only truly treatable species. Everything else is treated to refusal and will rot. There are lumber yards around here that sell treated red pine, but I will not install there products. Also if possible get the ones with arsinic. The replacement treatements (AC2, AcQ are highly corrosive and less effective. I can usually get treated southern pine for about the same price as non-treated syp, at least in MI.
Good Luck
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