Thread: Drying Timber at home.

This is only my opinion however I wouldn't put a piece of treated pine anywhere near an oven. The stuff they treat pine with is something akin to arsenic. The following safety guide says it all:

http://www.atpine.com.au/TTsafetyguide.pdf

Wear
• Gloves
• Goggles
• Mask

Don’t
• Burn it
• Cook with it
• Use it for animal litter

Do
• Wash work clothes separately
• Dispose of waste in an approved landfill

To answer your question, I think you could use it straight up without fear of it seriously warping or anything else.

Yeah I was wondering. I knew never to burn it or to allow animals to chew on it but something I read somewhere said it gets dryed after treatment so I was thinking a moderate heat was safe.
Thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by sjt

This is only my opinion however I wouldn't put a piece of treated pine anywhere near an oven. The stuff they treat pine with is something akin to arsenic. The following safety guide says it all:

http://www.atpine.com.au/TTsafetyguide.pdf

Wear
• Gloves
• Goggles
• Mask

Don’t
• Burn it
• Cook with it
• Use it for animal litter

Do
• Wash work clothes separately
• Dispose of waste in an approved landfill

To answer your question, I think you could use it straight up without fear of it seriously warping or anything else.

Originally Posted by Mychael

Thanks for the link.

No probs

Originally Posted by Mychael

I purchased a length of 90x90 treated Pine from Bunnies to make some extensions to the legs of a small bench I have.
When I cut of the short (13inch) pieces I needed I discovered it was still very damp inside.
So the question is if I wanted to dry it out a bit more is it feasabile to do it in a domestic fan forced oven and if so what cycle/temp would you use to achieve it. The oven is fan forced.

most of the pine ive used is dripping with moisture ,maybe try cyrpess pine still prolly wont be dry but its safer than treated pine