Re: Pressurized timbers

**"* T* <m*@hort.net>**

Thanks, Sandie.  That's what I rather thought from what little
reading of manufacturer blurbs I've done on the composite lumber. 
It's more expensive than wood at this point and since we design
commercial buildings, we tend to use concrete anyway....so there's
not been a need to dig into the matter.

Seems the public goes on emotion rather than fact and logic; always
have and always will, which is why it's so easy to create mass
hysteria of one kind or another.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Sandie Parrott <rsbirdy@comcast.net>
> In response to your comment about using plastic
> (or composite) lumber for structural support...
> 
> I recently attended a seminar from the major
> manufacturers of composite lumber.  The
> composite lumber has not been given the OK as
> of yet in Michigan for use in structural supports or
> anything touching or in the ground...(as of last
> summer).
> 
> Representatives from the pressure treated
> industry were also present with data indicating the
> public had indeed gone over the deep end.  It did
> not matter.  They were almost ran off the stage...
> and nobody talked to them after the show.  The
> "public" did not believe them.
> 
> Sandie Parrott

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