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Aloha: I plan on building a house on the Big Island of Hawaii. We get well over 100″ of rain a year here. Last week we got 24″ in 24 hours. Code requires PT wood for framing. The local lumber company sez they can dip paralam posts, beams and I-joists in a Borax-based solution and it’s “treated”. Anybody have experience with this? I would like to use engineered lumber and we need the PT because of the termites here.
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Aloha: I plan on building a house on the Big Island of Hawaii. We get well over 100" of rain a year here. Last week we got 24" in 24 hours. Code requires PT wood for framing. The local lumber company sez they can dip paralam posts, beams and I-joists in a Borax-based solution and it's "treated". Anybody have experience with this? I would like to use engineered lumber and we need the PT because of the termites here.