Pressure Treated Douglas Fir

Pressure Treated Douglas Fir2022-11-25T10:01:31-08:00

“When you stand for nothing, you end up falling for everything.”

This decision may be controversial to some, but starting immediately, The Lumber Baron will no longer be carrying any pressure treated lumber.

After learning in early 2020 from a customer (the state or local agencies gave us zero warning) that the local dumps were no longer accepting pressure treated lumber, and it had been deemed a class one hazardous waste by the state, the decision to no longer carry pressure treated lumber was immediately instituted. Although the state eventually eased it’s stance on it’s no dumping policy, there is no guarantee it will do so in the future, and for me, the decision had already been made. Our choice came down to (what I, and hopefully a lot of you, believe is) doing the right thing, both for our customers and the environment. I am well aware not everyone will agree and we will lose both sales and longtime customers who prefer their way of doing things. However, I hope most of you can see where I’m coming from and will help support my “stand” of not putting any more pressure treated product out on the market. As a very environmentally conscious company, we feel this move falls right in line with our core beliefs. We are in the middle of going completely electric with our forklift and delivery fleet, and plan on using solar panels for all of our electrical needs in the upcoming years.

Beautiful, renewable, sustainable, durable, chemical free, and biodegradable, heartwood redwood once again proves itself as an incredible building option. No matter what people try to come up with alternative wise (plastic decking, finger jointed siding, pressure treated lumber) there is no substitute for real thing.

For those of you worried about the longevity of our heartwood redwood (in theory it holds up equally if not longer then pressure treated fir) we have also started to carry the LifeTime Wood Treatment Product. Used in rot prone areas (base of posts, joists, etc.)  the LifeTime Treatement (made with all natural products) acts as another protective barrier that should have our customers forgetting about pressure treated lumber in no time.