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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Sep-2007
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Country: USA
Posts: 56
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Using pressure treated lumber for bonsai benches
Is there any issue with sitting trees on pressure treated lumber (thomsonized or wood composite or the like)? I ask because I was at Home Depot last night, and noticed that there were warnings with using the lumber near water supplies.
Most of my trees are in pond baskets at the moment - I had tried gluing plastic feet onto the bottoms of the baskets, but super glue doesn't have much of a bond with the baskets, and many of these plastic feet just keep breaking off (in retrospect, I should have just wired wood feet to the bottoms of the baskets). So, at the moment, the basket bottoms would be sitting flush against the wood top of the bench.
I guess I'm wondering if there is any concern with the water beading against the lumber, which then leaches harmful chemicals back into the pond basket. Thanks very much!
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