Welcome home Rudy - what have you been working on?
Best,
Leland
-----Original Message-----
From: Rudy Christian <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
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Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: High Energy Paint Removal


>In a message dated 1/5/99 4:56:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
>writes:
>
><< Staining pressure treated wood sounds good if you can find a stain that
>will
> commit to a long term relationship with the preservative. >>
>
>It would appear we have some preservateers in our midst.
>
><<I'd like to visit, but live there?>>
>
>We did an octagonal timber frame for a bozo who decided to build his
>foundation/ family room out of pressure treated 8x8's. To save money (which
>excited him to no end) he decided to plane the inside surfaces for that
>"finished look". Realizing the by product of his labors was pressure
treated
>planer chips, he mulched all of his newly planted nursery trees.
>
>Now we all know what trees are for, and so did my dog. About a week after
we
>raised his frame, our dog started losing the hair around his paws. We took
him
>to the vet and his first question was "Have you just built a new deck?"
>
>I guess the moral of the story is: "If you leave the pressure treated wood
at
>the lumber yard, you don't have to worry about whether paint sticks to it
or
>not."
>
>Rudy