Painting pressure-treated wood comes with some complications caused by the very treatment that allows the material to last outdoors. The chemical preservatives used to produce pressure-treated wood ...

Those who have spent some time working with wood know that the building material comes in different types, and they’re not all equally suited for every project. Other than the features that depend on ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to deny a petition to ban the use of chromated copper arsenate pressure-treated wood in playground equipment. CCA manufacturers and the ...

Koppers Holdings Inc., an integrated global provider of treated wood products, wood treatment chemicals, and carbon compounds ...

Vantablack, which is the world's darkest material, could be in for some competition. Canadian scientists have created a super-black substance that has the potential to be cheaper, hardier and easier ...

Compiled By Jill Jusko Arsenic-treated lumber no longer will be available for residential use by Dec. 31, 2003, announced Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman. Whitman said ...

According to a Finnish study, surface treatment and moisture affect the antibacterial properties of wood. Based on the findings, treated wood should be increasingly used as surface material. Research ...

This winter will see a revolution in the way home landscape structures are built. That doesn't mean decks will suddenly become vertical or planting beds will get suspended from the sky. In fact, ...

In early 2020, my family and I hired pros to tear off the stone steps, wrapped with a waist-height rock wall, at the back of our house. The steps were nearly 100 years old, and the entire fixture was ...

California contractors will have an easier time disposing of treated wood waste (TWW) now that AB 332 was unanimously approved by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug.