Pressure-treated wood can last 15-20 years or more, depending on the environmental conditions and maintenance. Regular sealing and staining can extend its lifespan by providing additional ...

If you want a natural or rustic look for your backyard, try customizing your fence by using distressed wood, whitewashing, or adding touches of greenery.

These creative garden fence ideas will add style to your yard, define the gardening space and keep animals away. Planning a garden requires a lot of decisions. You have to figure out what seeds to ...

Pressure-treated wood has been around for nearly 70 years, yet most of us still know very little about this popular outdoor building material. To start, pressure-treated wood is softwood lumber ...

A wooden fence can serve you well for 7-12 years if it’s made of untreated lumber, and 30 years or more for pressure treated lumber. However, it will require ...

Ground-contact rated lumber has .40 pounds of preservative per cubic foot. Above-ground rated lumber has .25 pounds. Use the .40 variety for posts and flower planters, for example.

Failure is usually due to rotten posts. You can extend the life of the posts, and thereby the fence, by using pressure-treated wood. The color of the posts will be different, but they last longer.

Wood labeled LP-22 or 0.40, or both, is treated to withstand direct contact with the ground and is suitable for fence posts, deck supports, landscaping timbers and similar ground-contact projects.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — If you’re planning to build a deck, planter, fence or picnic table with pressure-treated lumber, you may want to reconsider. This popular lumber — known as CCA… ...

All other things being equal, a cedar fence runs $25 per square foot, Ipe is $32 per square foot and pressure treated wood is about $22, Lazar tells her clients. “That is for a yard that is graded and ...

Q: I have an older wood fence with rotten posts. In the last windstorm, part of it fell over. The fence boards are in good shape, so I'd like to reuse them. But, clearly new posts are required. I ...