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But do not reuse or burn lumber from old decks, fences, playground equipment or any pressure-treated wood structures from before 2008, because the wood was probably treated with chromated copper arsenate, which is poisonous.
Green Scene: Some ideas for an environmentally friendly landscape 2011
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A random collection of posts held the roof up—one of them a pressure-treated four-by-four, one a turned and lathed column; another was a formerly straight whitewashed post with chipping paint.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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It is normal for pressure-treated boards to shrink across their width.
Do-it-yourself advice for home improvement Gene Austin 2010
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I have a large deck built of pressure-treated wood.
Do-it-yourself advice for home improvement Gene Austin 2010
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Well, OK, I know they're removing the concrete-pad deck and replacing it with wood, because their front yard is piled with pressure-treated wood, and the back, with piles of former deck.
On a no-longer quiet summery Saturday da_lj 2008
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Avoid models with pressure-treated wood, to avoid toxins.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Or top each joist with a quarter-inch-thick shim strip ripped from pressure-treated wood.
Replacing deck boards: The quarter-inch conundrum Jeanne Huber 2010
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Avoid models with pressure-treated wood, to avoid toxins.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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A random collection of posts held the roof up—one of them a pressure-treated four-by-four, one a turned and lathed column; another was a formerly straight whitewashed post with chipping paint.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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There was a collapsed greenhouse back there, too, with the nursery firs and arborvitae growing up through scraps of pressure-treated wood and rotting plywood.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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