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0UTD00R projects such as these have a guaranteed long lile when constructed of pressure treated wood More and more homeowners are usrng rt for decks, tencing and other 0uld00r structures.

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Treated Wood Builds Endurance

After many years of use in the building industry for foundations, sill plates and other below-ground applications, pressure treated lumber is fast becoming a favorite of do-ityourselfers for outdoor projects.

Southern pine dimension lumber treated with water-repellent, endsealed and kiln dried for good warp and shrinkage resistance is an excellent choice for use in light frame

Wholesalers to meet in Colorado

North American Wholesale Lumber Association's 9lst Annual Meeting scheduled at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Co., May 22-25 is already shaping up as one of the organization's largest conventions in recent years.

Utilizing the theme, "The Best Get Better," convention coordinator Gordon J. King, Hampton Lumber Sales, Portland, Or., has arranged a three-day program.

Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Donald Ratajczak, nationally known economist and forecaster. In later sessions, NAWLA delegates construction, decks, patios and porches, benches and other outdoor structures. Any project which is exposed to the weather is suited to pressure treated lumber.

Pressure treated wood is softwood lumber treated by a vacuum process which forces preservatives deep into the cells of the wood. The result is an extremely durable building material with all the advantages of wood plus will hear Dr. Lyman K. Steil, President of Communications Development, Inc., on "Effective Listening resistance to decay and moisture. the three convention days.

Outdoor structures built of pressure treated material in hot, humid climates have withstood attack by rot and insects for many years with no signs of disintegration.

Dealers can help their customers achieve satisfaction with their outdoor projects by recommending pressure treated wood and showing them how to identify it.

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Ear-Q. " Another program will be a "Look at the Future" that will utilize lumber producer association executives from all corners of North America. William Ganser, SFPA; Keith Lanning, CRA; Donald Lanskail, COFI; Bronson Lewis, APA; Jack McCracken, CLA, and H.A. Roberts, WWPA,will hold forth on a host of industry subjects and outlooks. There will also be informal afternoon sessions on two of

Further programming will include a Manufacturer/Service Supplier/ Wholesaler Contacl Session, a Manufacturer-Wholesaler Working Breakfast, and a brief audio-visual look at the NAWLA Wood Marketing School.

A new wrinkle for the NAWLA meeting will be its shortened format to three days of delegate and director meetings preceded by a Men's Golf Tournament on Sunday, May 22nd.

AWPB STAMP

(Continued from page I2) has also issued a number of other standards. Covered are treatment of lumber, timber and plywood with pentachlorophenol as well as creosote; the All Weather Wood Foundation; marine lumber and plywood; construction poles; landscape timbers and marine piling.

All are based on standards issued by the technical association of the industry, the American Wood Preservers Association. AWPB standards have added quality control and reinspection provisions.

Control doesn't stop with the issuing of standards. The quality control and assurance procedures are implemented by independent certified quality control agencies. They also issue treating stamps, make complaint reinspections, and enforce all other requirements of the standards. All suspensions are handled through the agencies.

The activities of the agencies are monitored by AWPB as an overview function through a field staff which makes random checks of pressure treated lumber at treating plants and destination sites. In addition, three times each year a sampling survey is conducted randomly at l0 9o of each agency's plants to judge efficiency.

This system is similar to that used by the American Lumber Standards Committee in monitoring grade marked lumber. A laboratory maintained at Arlington, Va., assays approximately 1500 samples of treated wood each month. These samples are all taken by agency and AWPB field staff personnel.

The quality mark is approved by all model building codes and by HUD. It is also specified by many other government and nongovernment agencies.

The AWPB quality control program is supported voluntarily by 290 treating plants in the United States that primarily treat softwood lumber with water-borne preservatives. A high proportion of the pressure treated lumber produced in the United States is from these plants. What about material treated by non AWPB plants? Many are treating treatable species with waterborne preservatives to the same standards as AWPB plants. Some use other forms of quality control and most maintain a high level of quality.

It has been the experience of the AWPB field staff that most of the problems found in pressure treated lumber are outside the scope of the quality control programs, as in the treatment of difficult to lreat species, mostly unincised, and wood too wel to treal properly. The latter found usualfy in material over 2 inches thick. In investigating wood failures the field staff has also found a number of cases of untreated wood being sold as treated wood, usually by a contractor. In one instance, unlreated wood was brush coated with a wood preservative purchased at a hardware store.

The wood failures investigated by AWPB point up clearly the necessity of using properly treated material that is also properly identified by a treatment stamp. The field staff has never found a failure in properly treated wood properly used.

NAWLA Wood Market Seminar

The North American Wholesale Lumber Association Wood Marketing Seminar will be held June 12-17 at Oregon State University, Corvallis. Or.

Included are classroom instruction, class participation, problem solving and two field trips. Instruction is by OSU professors and active NAWLA wholesalers.

South Bay Retirement Party

Affectionate tributes and good natured kidding marked the recent retirement party for Don "Sully" Sullivan hosted by Jim Frodsham, president of South Bay Forest Products Co., Orange, Ca.

Sullivan has been a member of the lumber industry for more than 38 years and has worked at South Bay for 20 years selling their full line of redwood, Douglas fir, spruce and cedar. "Sully" plans to travel some, but mainly just relax and enjoy himself.

Housing Climbing Upward

A brighter picture is ahead for the housing industry as figures are revised upward to 1.475 million units for 1983, largely due to the drop in interest rates.

In explaining the increase, George A. Christie, v.p. and chief economist for McGraw-Hill Information Systems Co., said "The rate of housing starts will ease back from the unrealistically high first quarter volume, a statistical aberration. and later rebound to a rate of 1.55 million in the fourth quarter of the year. The most probable estimate for 1983 is a mix of 900,000 one family homes and 575,000 multifamily units. "

The revised figures include housing contract values at $85.9 billion, a 4890 jump from 1982's $58.1 billion.

Supervisors Job Not for All

Approximately one-fourth of all supervisors never want to be promoted. They are happier in the rank and file.

Heavy Oll Pentachlorophenol

Water borne Pentachlorophenol

FR SHAKES & SHINGLES

(Continued from page I4) capitalizing on a market created by ordinances prohibiting untreated shakes?

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No. Flame spread ratings are applied to materials subjected to ASTM Standard E-84 (the tunnel test). Class I surface burning characteristics are required of fire retardant treated plywood and lumber construction products under the U.B.C. The ratings given to wood shakes tested under UL-7n do not correlate with ratings under ASTM E-84.

Aren't pressure treated fire rated shakes anew, unproven product,

No. In the late 1960's two Western treating plants were qualified by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. These two plants (Koppers and J.H. Baxter), however, remained the only Western producers of pressure treated shakes until the late 1970 s.

Why must shakes be pressure treated?

Only under industry recognized pressure treating processes are the necessary quantities of chemical and maximum penetration assured. Shakes have shown as much as 3/16 inch erosion in the California weather in a tenyear period. The slight penetration that occurs from quick dips or sprayed on chemicals can be inadequate against rain, wind and ultraviolet erosion. Pamphlet No. 203 M of the National Fire Protection Association states, "Wood shakes or shingles selected for roof coverings should be fire retardant treated by a pressure impregnation process and classified in accordance with NFPA Standard 256 (UL-790)." Underwriters have stated that only shakes treated by pressure processes have met UL-790 requirements for fire rated roof coverings.

Q: Are fire retardant treatments permanent?

A: It would depend on the chemical formulation and methods of treatment. Tests conducted bY Underwriters Laboratory on shakes that Koppers had treated revealed that these shakes had maintained their fire retardants after I I years on roofs.

Q: Does the treatment affect the life of wood shakes?

A: No, the normal life of shakes or shingles should be unchanged. The chemicals, however, do Provide added decay resistance and should increase service life in areas conducive to early decaY of untreated shakes.

Q: Will treated shakes ignite and throw burning embers?

No. Shakes and shingles that conform to all conditions of UL-790 do not support combustion and therefore do not Produce flying embers.

Can the pressure treating industry meet the potential demand for fire rated shakes and shingles?

A: Yes. The number of Producers has doubled in the past three years and new plants are being built.

Treated Wood'sa Slow Burner

Hoover Universal is now producing Pro-Tex fire retardant treated wood products at its Dillard, Or., treating plant.

A new, improved second generation interior fire retardant pressure treatment for lumber and plywood, the technique results in material which can be used for interior aPplications where humidities range up to 95qo without high rates of moisture pickup and without problems of corrosion of metal fasteners. These characteristics make Pro-Tex especially suitable for truss and component manufacturing with standard galvanized fasteners.

Western Home Show ExPands

Due to "tremendous response," a second exhibit hall will be added to the first Western Home Center & Building Materials Show at the Anaheim (Ca.) Convention Center, Oct.2l-23.

John F. Berry, director of the trade show, said the second hall doubles to 100,000 square feet space available to exhibitors in this regional exposition.

"We are delighted at the positive reaction to the show of both national and regional manufacturers seeking to reach retailers and distributors in the l3 Western states," Berry said. ' 'It is their demand for space in a true Western regional show that has prompted this action," he said.

Exhibits, education display centers and other features of the show will open at noon, Friday, Oct. 21 , and run until 9 p.m. On SaturdaY, Oct. 22, exhibit hours will be l0 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Sunday, Oct. 23, exhibits

In addition to Pro-Tex lumber and plywood, the Dillard plant produces Exterior Fire-X. exterior fire retardant treated lumber and plywood, and Exterior Fire-X red cedar shingles and shakes.

The plant, strategically located for shipments by truck, rail or piggyback to the Western states, Rocky Mountain states and the East, can provide treating service only or lumber and plywood treated and delivered.

It is part of the Hoover Universal Wood Preserving Division, which has plants in Pine Bluff, Ar., Thomson, Ga., and Milford, Va. In addition Hoover Universal, Inc. has 50 manufacturing plants in the U.S., employing some 7,200 persons.

PRODUCERS OF FIRE RATED WOOD SHAKES AND SHINGLES USING INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED PRESSURE TREATING STANDARDS

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Koppers Co., Inc.

J.H. Baxter & Co. Chemco, Inc.

B.C. Clean Wood, Ltd. Hoover Universal

Treating Plant Location will open at l0 a.m. and close at 2 p.m.

Oroville, Ca. Eugene, Or.

Ferndale, Or. Surrey, B.C. Dllard, Or.

A complete schedule of seminars for the Western retailer is planned, under the direction of William F. Fishman. who also serves as seminar director for the National Home Center Show and is a columnist for The Merchant Magazine.

More than 10,000 are expected to attend the new show. Some 20Vo of all home center and building materials sales in the U.S. are by firms

Fire Resistant Rating

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Model Code Number rcBo-3918

ICBO-3918

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ICBO-4044

ICBO-3591 located in the l3 Western states, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Exhibit and pre-registration information for the Western Home Center & Building Materials Show can be obtained from Marvin Park & Associates, 600 Talcott Road, Park Ridge, Il. 60060. Tel: 312/ 823-2151. The trade show division of Vance Publishing Co. is the sponsor.

Colorado Expansion

(Continued from page I l) and imported, custom veneered panels and doors, plywood and trim, and pre-machined parts. These products are readily available since Wigand stocks 350,000 board feet of domestic and imported hardwoods; 1,250,000 square feet of domestic and imported veneers, and 350,000 square feet of plywood, particle core and other sheet materials.

Managing the treating division is Emeric Wigand, Jr. A graduate of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Oh., and a CPA, he went to Wigand in l98l after spending ZVz years as an auditor for a national accounting firm.

Wigand joins Wigand company officers Emeric Wigand, Sr., president; Jared Faulb, treasurer: Guenter Jakuszeit, vice president of manufacturing,and Sam Marzavas, vice president of installations.

Timbers

With the addition of the Osmose treating plant, Wigand has taken an important step toward better servicing the treated wood and architectural products industry.

Education

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No, the lumber will weather over a period of time to a pleasing driftwood gray.

Can treated lumber be painted or stained?

Lumber treated with waterborne preservatives may actually hold finish coats better than untreated lumber. Treated lumber resists rot and decay, major causes of paint blistering and peeling. Allow the lumber to dry in-place before painting.

How can I be sure the lumber I am buying is properly treated?

Look for the American Wood Preservers Bureau Quality Mark stamp on each piece. It is your assurance that the lumber has been treated according to established industry standards and will meet all local buildins codes.

Give'em a Break

Two breaks in an eight-hour workday, one scheduled two hours into the day and the other two hours before quitting time, will help employees maintain optimal productivity. If the job requires additional concentration, a third break is beneficial.

News Briefs

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Sunrise Forest Products, Portland, Or., and Pat Lumber Co., Chino, C3., are currently negotiating a possible merger of the two firms

MarquartWolfe Lumber Co., Tustin, C?., is observing its 30th year in business

The sale of Oregon Cut Stock & Moulding, White City, (Medford) Or., to a Texas investment firm of which Wilson Building Moteriols, Clifton, Tx., is apart is expected to be finalized by midmonth . . . Barbara Jeddeloh will remain pres. of the Or. firm . .

M ac k la n b u rg - Dunc a n has opened a Los Angeles warehouse distribution center to service the Az., Ca.,Wa., Or. area. . Forest City Trading Group, Portland, Or., has expanded by opening Seoboard International Forest Products, .Irc., Nashua, N.H. Ogden Mil ling & Lumber, Ogden, Ut., has remodeled its offices and added 22,0N sq. ft. of covered warehouse space for transit storage. .

Carter Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., has closed after losing its lease . 84 Lumber Co. has targeted $24.2 million for the development of 40 new stores

Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, Ca., has added a customdesigned 840 sq. ft. greenhouse for specimen plants and tropical evergreens. .

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