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   Piffin | Jul 18, 2003 08:32am | #1

   You'll never get good trim work out of treated lumber. It will move too much.

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   andybuildz | Jul 18, 2003 03:10pm | #2

   You should be using cedar or redwood...why treated???? It splits, checks and warps. I don't even like it for decks other than the supporting timbers.

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   VaTom | Jul 18, 2003 03:13pm | #3

   Doug,

   I can actually buy dry treated lumber- from one local source.  Everybody else has lumber that would be far too wet for your use.  Do you actually know the moisture content (mc)?

   When I've needed to get treated lumber to work well in your type of application and could only get wet lumber, I've dried it in my shop.  I also use a moisture meter to know, for sure, what I've got.  Then I don't have problems.  I never rely on metal fasteners.  Glue (resorcinol) and joinery works better. 

   Awhile back I was commissioned to make a lot of good sized exterior planters for a race horse breeding operation, high end 40,000 ft barn.  Specs were treated lumber and marine ply.  It's been 11 years of outside living and they still look great.  Been repainted twice.  Customer knows that when they come from me they'll be cheaper for the lifespan than commercial ones, if initially expensive.  That's the kind of reputation I want.

   Assuming you didn't do anything strange, like cross-grain laminating, you have lumber problems.  A moisture meter is a LOT less expensive (and less embarrassing) than eating your failures. 

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