Treating Cut Ends Of Pressure Treated Wood
Provides a water repellent finish on pressure treated timber which has been cut or drilled in any way to expose the untreated inner wood.
Treating cut ends of pressure treated wood. Pressure treated wood is wood that has a preservative forced deeply into it. It is used for many exterior applications such as decks and picnic tables. Pressure treated lumber is wood like pine or fir that has been injected with a preservative in order to make it last longer on outdoor projects like fencing or decks. The wood itself is only 2 years old but failure to seal the end cuts has allowed water to penetrate into the wood which has rotted.
Drying time 12 hours. Outlast q8 log oil is the best choice for this purpose because it contains 675 copper 8 quinolinolate to meet the awpa m 4 standard for end cuts bore holes and fastener punctures and it is virtually odorless while drying invisibly into the end grain. The 3 12 pressure treated wood stair stringers in the picture above left of image have decayed causing structural issues with this staircase. Example of treated wood failure due to not treating end cuts.
This causes it to be resistant to decay and insects. Protects against fungal decay such as wet rot wood discolouring fungus and wood boring insect attack. When cutting thick pieces of wood such as fence posts the preservative may not have soaked all the way to the center of the lumber.