Aaron Pilch was on a quest for two pieces of wood. It took him three weeks to find them. The do-it-yourselfer recently needed the 2-inch-by-12-inch-by-12-foot planks of pressure-treated pine to m ...

Health: Wood is treated to ward off termites. ... At a Lowe’s store in Manassas, Va., a salesman located a handful of brochures, after much effort, beneath a pile of wood.

In Largo, mother Olivia Robison planned to build a wooden playground in the back yard. She was ready to order wood from Home Depot or Lowe's when she found out the wood she planned to use had ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — If you’re planning to build a deck, planter, fence or picnic table with pressure-treated lumber, you may want to reconsider. This popular lumber — known as CCA… ...

Two national environmental groups want Lowe's and Home Depot stores to stop selling arsenic-treated wood, saying new tests show that children increase their cancer risk by just touching the ...

Pressure-treated wood has been around for nearly 70 years, yet most of us still know very little about this popular outdoor building material. To start, pressure-treated wood is softwood lumber ...

In just a few weeks a builder will show up to completely rebuild my deck. The house is only 20 years old and the treated lumber used to build it is rotting away. The centers of the deck railing pos… ...

Answer: Treated lumber is a good product, but you need to realize there’s an element of risk when using it. As with a chain, treated lumber is only as rot proof as its weakest link.

Not only can treated lumber rot, but wood-destroying insects can eat it. I had this happen at my own home. I built a play set for my kids using treated lumber that was approved for ground burial.