I have various wooden items in my garden: raised beds, supports for runner beans, netting frames etc. The wood I have used was all treated (tanalised?). What treatment would people suggest for not just painting the wood, but soaking in and protecting it from rotting? Named product recommendations appreciated. Cheers.
All the really good preservatives have been banned. The bits that really need treating are hidden unless you are prepared to dig them out. Cuprinol is good (ish) but expensive. But not as good as it one was.
If your tanalising was done years ago it was good (Arsenic and copper salts.)
Nowadays it is shit (Chromium salts I think.)
If you want a decorative finish ... then Sadolin Classic is about as good as it gets unless you pay for dome very expensive Sikkens products.
For decking - use decking oil.
It's time we formulated our own. I offer borax, copper powder & used oil. What else could go in?
NT
Creosote is deadly to cats and dogs, proberbly best to stick with some of the new treatments, and not the 'old' tin in the back of the shed.
Never seemed to do ours any harm.
Tim
How many coats did you put on them?
G.Harman
Or did you feed it to them? Yes. That myth is crap, and seems to have been invented to encourage the public to accept the creosote ban. Like so many things, it is mildly carcinogenic, but is really only a danger to people who work with it all the time - so the solution adopted was to ban it for private use. The same was done for benomyl and many other things.
Regards, Nick Maclaren.
Not on sale to public anymore
easy enough to make, but I don't know what the legal position is on that now.
NT
Not illegal to use .. just to sell
There are also far better products to use than creosote .. it was very messy to apply and would happily stain clothes months later.
The only better preservatives I know of are high toxicity arsenic compounds, which aren't appropriate for home use.
NT
A solution of diesel and waste engine oil was supposed to be good for treating timber, probably because of the tars/creosote compounds in the oil. It would be very smelly though. Apparently you can still buy creosote but only in larger quantities from specialist suppliers, not your average hardware store. You could try scraping some from inside your chimney?
I used it for the garage loft timbers, the smell wore off after about 10 years! It also drifted through the house. We told the visitors it was down to the coal tar soap we used!
My post was concerning cats and dogs, and not humans While the avage man in the street would not go round licking freshley painted fencing, animals will get into contact with it. I speak from experince, as one of my cats came in frothing at the mouth, smell of cresote on her fur, we gather she had walked/rubbed on a freshley treated fence, and then 'TRIED TO LICK IT OFF'
Hence a very quick trip to the vets, who gave her a purge, and then said the only thing to do was to wash her, and keep on washing, untill all the trace of smell was removed, but pets have died. Two hours in the kitchen sink, and the only way we could tell if the cresote had been removed from her paws, was to suck on her paws to see if we could taste any residude.
Thankfully our cat survived.
That be better than the powdered glass in a sausage ?
Powdered glass may not be dangerous to eat apparently! Try Googling it. Just an old fiction writer's tale.
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