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Wood Treatment for Boxes
Here's another question (and then I'm going to bed!).
I bought my boxes from Homebase, and I can't figure out if the wood is pressure treated - so I'll assume it is. Can anyone recommend a wood treatment that will seal the wood but not poison my soil?
Cheers,
Jessica
I bought my boxes from Homebase, and I can't figure out if the wood is pressure treated - so I'll assume it is. Can anyone recommend a wood treatment that will seal the wood but not poison my soil?
Cheers,
Jessica
jessica.leschnikoff- Posts : 4
Join date : 2012-03-02
Location : Maidstone, Kent, England
Re: Wood Treatment for Boxes
Most all the harmful chemicals will leech out of thw wood in short order. The pressure treated wood over here has been changed dramaticly since 2003. There are some that are concerned by many about using pressure treated wood and I respect their positions
As for your specific question, I do not know what to put on the wood but you can try coverrng it with black plastic....
As for your specific question, I do not know what to put on the wood but you can try coverrng it with black plastic....
floyd1440- Posts : 815
Join date : 2011-06-21
Age : 70
Location : Washington, Pa. Zone 6a
Re: Wood Treatment for Boxes
Jessica ,
Was the box frame pre made for home base ?
Is the wood a nice creamy white with a few blazes of brown/ red in it or is it rough faced and slightly green / silver green in colour ? .
If the latter it may well have been treated tin=mber.
Can you bung up a photo in a weeks time when you have your photo posting permissions , one showing fullsize and one close up
Was the box frame pre made for home base ?
Is the wood a nice creamy white with a few blazes of brown/ red in it or is it rough faced and slightly green / silver green in colour ? .
If the latter it may well have been treated tin=mber.
Can you bung up a photo in a weeks time when you have your photo posting permissions , one showing fullsize and one close up
plantoid- Posts : 4096
Join date : 2011-11-09
Age : 73
Location : At the west end of M4 in the UK
Re: Wood Treatment for Boxes
I have always heard one should line treated wood with plastic and wondered what kind and why it did not leach chems into the soil.floyd1440 wrote:Most all the harmful chemicals will leech out of thw wood in short order. The pressure treated wood over here has been changed dramaticly since 2003. There are some that are concerned by many about using pressure treated wood and I respect their positions
As for your specific question, I do not know what to put on the wood but you can try coverrng it with black plastic....
shannon1- Posts : 1697
Join date : 2011-04-01
Location : zone 9a St.Johns county FL
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