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Coastal Contractor

May 2008
Chemical-free wood decking; unsafe scaffold planks; code download; calendar of events; more

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Treatment Fights Rot With Heat, Not Chemicals If you've been to any building trade shows recently, you may have run across a new decking product dubbed PureWood, marketed and supplied by Memphis, Tenn.–based Bay Tree Technologies. What makes this southern yellow pine decking unusual is that it resists rot without the help of added chemicals. Instead, a patented method (the Stellac Process) changes the wood's chemistry with heat and steam, making the wood less susceptible to decay - enough that the company is willing to extend a 25-year warranty against structural damage from rot, warps, checks, corrosion, or insects.The concept

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