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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 537.1 | | WOTVAX::DODD | | Mon Apr 28 1997 17:39 | 5 |
| I would have thought that planed softwood would be lethally slippy when
wet. Sawn, tanalised will be easier and cheaper to obtain and better
than planed in the wet.
Andrew
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| 537.2 | | IOSG::PYE | Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice | Tue Apr 29 1997 11:47 | 4 |
| My timber framed house is built out of (I'm pretty certain!) tanalised
timber, and the wall studs appear to be planed finished. If not, I'd
like to borrow the saw :-) So this stuff must be available, but perhaps
not in the sizes you want.
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| 537.3 | Try Harcros | ROCKS::ROBINSON | Seasonally adjusted | Tue Apr 29 1997 13:54 | 9 |
| You can get any timber pressure treated. Harcros did a lot of planed
timber for me a couple of years ago. It came out at about twice the
price of untreated.
Grooving the underside will not stop it cupping.
I agree with the others that sawn timber would be less slippery but I
think you'll find that planed softwood will quite quickly roughen up as
the wet raises the grain.
Robbo
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| 537.4 | | ANNECY::AEO452::KENNEALY_R | | Tue Apr 29 1997 16:29 | 7 |
| I don't know where you are based, but normally if you shop around the lumbar
yards or saw mills you can find Western Red Cedar for about the same price as
pressure treated timber.
Personally, I would rather go for the Western Red Cedar's more natural look as I
don't like the green look of pressure treated timber. As far as longevity, I
would also probably opt for the cedar.
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| 537.5 | No problem | ROCKS::ROBINSON | Seasonally adjusted | Fri May 02 1997 13:11 | 4 |
| Pressure treated timber doesn't *have* to be green. The stuff I had
done was clear.
Robbo
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| 537.6 | | IOSG::PYE | Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice | Tue May 06 1997 09:29 | 1 |
| The stuff my house is built from certainly isn't green!
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