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How Do You Remove Green Mold From Treated Lumber?
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Mold can stain and decay your wood, especially when your treated lumber is exposed to prolonged moisture conditions. Mold fungi can appear on wood in a variety of different colors including orange, yellow, green, blue and black. Often the darker the
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How many board feet of lumber does it take to build a house?
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Different-sized houses will require different amounts of lumber. A board foot is calculated as 12-inches square by 1-inch thickness. To build a 1,800 square-foot house, you'd need 10,000 board feet.Source:<a href="http://sftrc.cas.psu.edu/FromWoods/P
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How many board-feet of lumber for a 2000 square foot house?
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So, using 4/4 lumber would mean 2000 board feet for the house assuming no waste.
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What holds the house up since standard framing lumber is not used?
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Structural support is provided by the panel skins. Structural insulated panels use less wood than conventional framing, and it is optimally placed (as the panel skins), resulting in a wall assembly more than twice as strong as a conventional 2x4 wall
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