On Jun 9, 11:09 am, Jim Webster wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:49:34 -0700, wrote:
Hi, I was planning to make some planters for our garden from decking
boards (from Wickes or B&Q).
As it's treated it should last a long time, however I am worried
whether this 'treatment' is harmful to small children by touching or
chewing (we have a 15 month old son and hope to have another child).
I would have thought it was safe as it's so widely used but just
wanted to double-check.
Thanks

Absolutely stunning that a parent should need to ask such a question!
There should be a test before people are allowed to breed, you clearly
wouldn't even find the test centre.

How do you conclude that.

ALL wood treatments are highly toxic.
Well, toxic. "Highly toxic" suggests that chewing a piece of treated
timber would kill a full grown man. It wouldn't.

To answer another poster MDF is full of toxins.
Right. So trying to exclude toxins from the environment is doomed to
failure. You have to teach the children to avoid them.

Do society a favour and give the kids up for adoption, you're clearly
an idiot!

No doubt you're the sort of parent who thinks it's OK to leave the
kids alone while you pop out for a meal?
Well I certainly am. OK, my one kid is now an adult, so you probably
claim that doesn't count. On the other hand when he was five I
cheerfully let him walk (actually "stamp") back to an uninhabited
house where you could /just/ see the nearest neighbour while we went
and walked up the hill. If this a cloaked attack at the McCanns, I
think leaving a two year old in a virtually crime-free village, within
sight of the restaurant, was pretty much the right level of
independance to give the child. (OK, in her case it turned out to
have been the wrong decision - but you can't wait until they're 16 to
let them out alone.)