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Western Turnings & Stair Co. 5-101 Vasquez Blvd. Commerce City, (lo. 80022

The Silent Treatment

a restricted use'pesticide for most uses, For your information I have enclosed an EPA approved Customer lnformation Sheet for creosote. Your "SP Sales Aids for Retailers," of both the January 1987 and 1988 issues did not mention creosote with regard to the Pressure Treated Wood: Consumer Information Sheet.

We welcome letlers lo lhe editor. They should be mailed with address ond phone number to Building Products Digest, 4500 Campus Dr., Suite 480, Newporl Beoch, Ca, 92660. We reserve the right to edit for length and clority-ed.

Optimistic Outlook

Your editorial in the January '88 issue of Buildins Products Drgest was terrificl I, as well as you, get very sick and tired of everybody taking the negative attitude as it seems to me they are taking the easy way out. Maybe my optimistic attitude is not always correct, but at least

Buildins Products Digestis an interesting and informative publication, but as a south Georgia wood preserver, I have a bone to pick with you. We treat fence lumber, post, barn poles, utility poles, bridge timbers, and landscape material with the wood preservative, coal tar creosote. Historically, when the DiSest has made reference to pressure treated wood products or preserving chemicals, inorganic arsenicals (cca, aca. acaz) and pentachlorophenol are mentioned, but never creosote. Consequently, many of my creosote customers and a greater number of potential customers have expressed belief that creosote has been banned by EPA or is no longer available.

Creosote, a coat tar distillate, has been used in the United States for over 100 years and current annual consumption is in excess of 70 million gallons!

Like inorganic arsenicals and pentachlorophenol, creosote is classified by EPA as

As a wood preserver who uses creosote. I know there are certain end uses for which creosote treated material may be more suitable than material treated with inorganic arsenicals or pentachlorophenol and visa/versa. So, in all fairness I believe creosote should be mentioned as a mqior wood preservative in all future issues of Building Products Digest where wood preserving chemicals are discussed.

Terrell W. Futch President

Glennville Wood Preserving Co., Inc. Route 4, Box 28

Glennville, Ga.3042'l

()le didnl mean to slight ueosote, which is said to be the oldest and most widely used wood preservalive worldwide, but most of our readers deal in lumber treated with waler borne preservatives. See the slory on p. 9 .for more information on creosote use - ed.)

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