I'm about to replace a stretch of fence along with my neighbor. I know
cedar looks beter but what will last longer? Will PT hold up even
better?

Notal

I prefer the cedar only for the fact that the pressure treated crap I've
bought warps like a son of a gun.
Put up a clothes line and used a couple 4x4 PT posts. The damn thing has
warped so much that I'm gonna have to redo it now (clothes hit the ground).
I have similar experience with a small fence I built around my garden.
Cedar from now on and a few coats of Penofin every so often.
Cheers,
cc

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I'm about to replace a stretch of fence along with my neighbor. I know
cedar looks beter but what will last longer? Will PT hold up even
better?

Notal

Hi Natal,

Agree with cc here. I built an arbor with
PT 4x4 posts about 5 years ago. One post
warped so badly that after 2 years I ran
kerfs every 1/2 inch for about 3 feet to try
to "straighten in out". Didn't work very
well - worst than ever now.

Got to do it over in cedar or something as it
looks like hell. Stay away from PT for this.

Still holds roses tho.

Lou

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Notal Kyder wrote:

I'm about to replace a stretch of fence along with my neighbor. I know
cedar looks beter but what will last longer? Will PT hold up even
better?

Notal

Notal Kyder ) wrote on Tuesday 31 May 2005 05:55 pm:

I'm about to replace a stretch of fence along with my neighbor. I know
cedar looks beter but what will last longer? Will PT hold up even
better?

Notal

I bought the treated stuff from Home Depot - the 1x3s(?) that sit on the
ground are already rotting away. Go with cedar for those, at a minimum.
Or, if you've got the cash, try the vinyl stuff. I made a section of
garden fence out of some of the 3' stuff, and it's great to work with. If
I had known nearly all of my fence sections were going to rot away when I
bought my house, I would've gone vinyl and replaced them all at once.
--
Michael White "To protect people from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer

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Notal Kyder wrote:
I'm about to replace a stretch of fence along with my neighbor. I know
cedar looks beter but what will last longer? Will PT hold up even
better?

Notal


It may be comparing apples to oranges considering the new PT chemicals,
the climate & soil conditions in your area vs mine, and the type &
quality of cedar available, but I have cedar fencing on PT posts set
directly on the ground. The posts have outlasted 2 sets of fencing and
probably will outlast the 3rd.


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Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland