There’s a very good chance you own something made of wood that’s exposed to the weather. It might be a fence, a deck, a dock, patio furniture, wood siding or a shed. Wood is a marvelous material. It’s ...

A recent article in Quill & Trowel, the newsletter of the Garden Writers Association, got my attention. It announced the availability of a new kind of treated wood, Wolmanized Natural Select, intended ...

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THE standard method 1 of measuring the toxicity of wood preservatives consists of exposing small wood blocks, containing a range of loadings of the preservative, to attack by a specific ...