Shop-wall chart · No. 07
Pressure-Treated Wood: Where It's Safe
The question I get most: is pressure-treated wood safe for furniture? Seats, tables, kids' pieces, garden beds, coops, indoors: a verdict for each, with the evidence.
What’s on it
- What's in today's PT (ACQ, copper azole, micronized copper, borate) and what CCA was
- A use-by-use verdict: tabletop, seat, kids' furniture, raised bed, coop, indoors, hot tub, firewood
- Garden beds (the OSU six-year study), the rules that matter, old CCA, and PT vs. cedar for each job
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The other shop-wall charts
No. 01
Outdoor Lumber Chart
Which wood goes where, what the end tag actually means, which screws survive treated lumber, and how to pick and dry a board. One page.
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No. 02
Exterior Fastener Chart
Which screw for what, pocket-hole length by stock thickness, pilot holes, the coatings that fail in treated lumber, and which glue actually works outside.
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No. 03
Outdoor Furniture Dimensions
The seat heights, table heights, depths, and clearances that make outdoor furniture comfortable — and a five-line design check to run before the first cut.
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No. 04
Outdoor Finishing Schedule
Which finish for which wood, the weather window, dry and recoat times, and how often to redo it. Two-sided.
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No. 05
Wood Movement & Gaps
How much boards shrink and swell by species, what moisture to build at, and how big to leave the gap on decks, slats, and panels.
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No. 06
Lumber Sizes & Metric Converter
Nominal to actual for every common board, the stocked size that replaces a 2x4 in the UK, EU, and Australia, plywood true thickness, fractions to millimeters. Two-sided.
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