Comments on: Picnic Table: Part 0, wood issues http://dougma.com/archives/171 the truth according to Doug Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:44:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Chad Winship http://dougma.com/archives/171/comment-page-1#comment-1479 Chad Winship Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:20:12 +0000 http://www.dougma.com/?p=171#comment-1479 Your other option, also not Ideal because of color variances is to mix. Use the PT lumber for the support frame and make the bences and top boards out of something food safe, then stain or paint the two different woods to similar colors. The PTa stuff will keep bug issues at bay and well stained and sealed pretty much any other wood will hold up on top. It becomes another father/son project, to sand and reseal the table every two years. Or just don't be so cheap and spring for the Teak. It's gorgeous and isn't your family worth $2000? :-P Your other option, also not Ideal because of color variances is to mix. Use the PT lumber for the support frame and make the bences and top boards out of something food safe, then stain or paint the two different woods to similar colors. The PTa stuff will keep bug issues at bay and well stained and sealed pretty much any other wood will hold up on top. It becomes another father/son project, to sand and reseal the table every two years.

Or just don’t be so cheap and spring for the Teak. It’s gorgeous and isn’t your family worth $2000?

:-P

]]> By: Jack Diederich http://dougma.com/archives/171/comment-page-1#comment-1478 Jack Diederich Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:04:59 +0000 http://www.dougma.com/?p=171#comment-1478 I had no idea treated wood was so lethal; I always considered it as just "not for indoors." For cheap and long lasting you are SOL. Buy the cheap stuff, seal it, and then replace any rotted boards as time goes by. In ten years rebuild from scratch. It might not be ideal but it is inexpensive and gives you a father/son project every decade (I've rebuilt the "same" picnic table with my both grandfather & father). I had no idea treated wood was so lethal; I always considered it as just “not for indoors.”

For cheap and long lasting you are SOL. Buy the cheap stuff, seal it, and then replace any rotted boards as time goes by. In ten years rebuild from scratch. It might not be ideal but it is inexpensive and gives you a father/son project every decade (I’ve rebuilt the “same” picnic table with my both grandfather & father).

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