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

Generally speaking you can say its safe. The preserver is forced under pressure inside the timber and by now the carrying solvent would have evaporated. You would need to eat an awful lot of wood for it do do harm I think. Touching is not a problem.

In article . com,
writes:
| 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.

It's not safe to chew, but lots of things aren't - I doubt that even
the ubiquitous MDF is. Teach them not to chew things without permission.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 8 Jun, 14:13, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article . writes:

It's not safe to chew, but lots of things aren't - I doubt that even
the ubiquitous MDF is. Teach them not to chew things without permission.

Thanks, Nick.
I shall have stern words with him straight away!

In article .com,
writes:
|
| It's not safe to chew, but lots of things aren't - I doubt that even
| the ubiquitous MDF is. Teach them not to chew things without permission.
|
| I shall have stern words with him straight away!

I used the methods of the late lamented Professor Pavlov - they work
as well on Homo sapiens as on Canis lupus familiaris.

Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...

In article .com,
writes:
|
| It's not safe to chew, but lots of things aren't - I doubt that even
| the ubiquitous MDF is. Teach them not to chew things without
permission.
|
| I shall have stern words with him straight away!

I used the methods of the late lamented Professor Pavlov - they work
as well on Homo sapiens as on Canis lupus familiaris.

Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)

The decking boards or the children?

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
"Mary Fisher" writes:
|
| Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)
|
| The decking boards or the children?

Well, I meant the boards, but it would certainly improve the palatability
of the children.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t...

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...

In article .com,
writes:
|
| It's not safe to chew, but lots of things aren't - I doubt that even
| the ubiquitous MDF is. Teach them not to chew things without
permission.
|
| I shall have stern words with him straight away!

I used the methods of the late lamented Professor Pavlov - they work
as well on Homo sapiens as on Canis lupus familiaris.

Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)

The decking boards or the children?

I would do both, my children were often a pain in the backside!(:-)

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.

ALL wood treatments are highly toxic. To answer another poster MDF is
full of toxins.


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?

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.)

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:23:51 -0700, Martin Bonner
wrote:

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.)


Contemptible.

In article ,
Jim Webster writes:
|
| Contemptible.

To other people: please do not continue 'debating' with trolls like
this one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 11 Jun 2007 17:17:22 GMT, (Nick Maclaren)
wrote:


In article ,
Jim Webster writes:
|
| Contemptible.

To other people: please do not continue 'debating' with trolls like
this one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

To other people: please do not continue 'debating' with pricks like
this one.

On Jun 11, 6:17 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,Jim Webster writes:

|
| Contemptible.

To other people: please do not continue 'debating' with trolls like
this one.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Yup. I fell for it :-(

--
Martin