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The treated pine blues

After I duly consulted the website and carefully made a shopping list of all the timber I was going to need, Dad and I set off to Bunnings. Only, upon arriving at the store, we discovered that all of the structural pine they had in stock was treated. It turns out that the Bunnings website lists all of the products that are available at any Bunnings across Australia, so it really does pay to check whether a given store has the thing you need before driving out there!

Nonetheless, I bought the pre-laminated panel I intend to use for the wellboard, and some DAR pieces including posts for the legs, the frame bearers and the apron wedges and wedge retainers. While we were there I also picked up some 45×70 H2 treated pine in the hopes that the vivid blue colour from the treatment would not penetrate throughout the timber, so wouldn’t be an issue once the outer surface was planed away. Those hopes went entirely unrealised. After planing back the surface, the blue crap did indeed permeate through the whole material, following along the growth lines of the tree.

treated pine
H2 treated pine

Lessons learned

  • Just because it’s on the website doesn’t mean the store has it.
  • H2 treated pine is no good for fine woodwork.