rick wrote:
On 06/09/2016 13:06, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 06:49:45 -0000 (UTC), Tim+
wrote:

Creosote

Creosote is deadly to cats and dogs, proberbly best to stick with
some
of the new treatments, and not the 'old' tin in the back of the shed.

Never seemed to do ours any harm.

How many coats did you put on them?

Or did you feed it to them? Yes. That myth is crap, and seems to
have been invented to encourage the public to accept the creosote
ban. Like so many things, it is mildly carcinogenic, but is really
only a danger to people who work with it all the time - so the
solution adopted was to ban it for private use. The same was done
for benomyl and many other things.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/biocides/copr/creosote.htm


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


There are also far better products to use than creosote .. it was very
messy to apply and would happily stain clothes months later.

I used it for the garage loft timbers, the smell wore off after
about 10 years! It also drifted through the house. We told the visitors
it was down to the coal tar soap we used!