July 19, 2024
Sugar rots timber as well as teeth!
For more than 40 years BTA have never specified toxic chemicals for treating timber decay. This has been based on our understandings of sound construction and not wishing to poison clients, craftspeople, users or the environment. We have observed how the old timber that lasts is no different to modern timber, except that the old timber was floated down rivers and/or stored in ponds and lakes. We believe this process will have dissolved the sugars in the sapwood that normally feeds algae and fungus as well as making it palatable for insects.
