May/June 2007
New pressure treatment; dig-safe number; purple cows; free deck-connection guide; more
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DECKING NEWS Non-Corrosive Pressure-Treated Wood Arch Treatment Technologies, of Wolmanized Wood fame, has developed a new, metal-free preservative that it claims creates "treated wood that is no more corrosive to metal hardware than is untreated wood." Most pressure-treating preservatives use metallic compounds (CCA contains chromium, copper, and arsenic - all metals - and ACQ relies on copper) to make wood unpalatable to decay organisms. A downside to the metallic preservatives, though, is they corrode steel and aluminum, via a galvanic reaction. This is particularly true of ACQ, which lacks chromium and arsenic, the elements that made CCA's copper component less
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