On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 5:25:49 PM UTC-4, Dan Purgert wrote:
A neighbor has wood steps that are very dark and look almost new.
He said they are not pressure treated and are more than a decade old.

They've been in the ground this whole time and haven't aged a bit.

Why are wood steps in the ground? I guess if they are not part of
a structure, maybe steps down a landscape grade, I can see it.



He pours his old motor oil on them whenever he changes his oil.
I could see where he did in that some wide steps were stained darker.

Does motor oil prevent bacteria and mold and insects from eating the wood?

Probably, but it must make a hell of a mess that you have to walk over.
Which gets back to the question of where these actually are.



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