On 10/14/17 6:29 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 18:23:14 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 10/14/17 5:40 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:19:05 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 10/14/17 5:14 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:53:11 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 10/14/17 9:04 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 03:02:30 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd
wrote:

On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 2:59:44 PM UTC-7, -MIKE- wrote:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DqXrs5DI2roJTli22

I need to replace the white board above this garage door.
... I'm going to replace with a new, treated
2x12. (Client wants cheapest option.)

That's not a great plan; treated lumber (1) isn't straight, (2) isn't dry, (3)
doesn't take paint well. Could you put a bit of housewrap (or
even tarpaper) over it, as a kind of flashing, with a trim board overtop
that, and paint the trim? Hardieboard isn't expensive, and might come
prepainted.

Heck, even just cutting the treated board in the curve is going to be a tough job,
'cuz it'll be hard to see pencil marks.

Not to mention that treated lumber will still rot if it's allowed to
stay wet. It's bug resistant, not water resistant. He'd be cutting
into the important top edge, too. The, now exposed, interior of the
wood isn't as saturated as the surface.


1. I have liquid wood preservative.
2. It's all "bugs." Water doesn't rot wood. It's microscopic bugs and
fungus that rot wood. You ever notice how fence posts or dock posts
don't rot way underground or water. Not enough oxygen. They rot closer
to the surface.

Have you ever noticed pressure treated decking? It doesn't rot, but
it sure doesn't last very long, naked.

https://bct.eco.umass.edu/publicatio...ns-about-wood/


1. None of that is news to me nor contradicts anything I wrote.
2. What I install won't be "naked."

Unless the top is wrapped with flashing of some sort (with a drip edge
to divert the water away), it will remain wet. The point is that
using PT doesn't help this problem at all.


I covered that. Pun.

Then there is no point in using PT, which was my point.


Sure there is.
But you just argue in circles in here for your own enjoyment so you have
fun.


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