See YellaWood Report 1 for a description of this material.
For the treads of my porch steps, I ordered six YellaWood decking boards. As advertised, these are clear pine. Unfortunately, most are warped too much for my application. Since YellaWood boards are not the same thickness as the boards I can obtain locally, I will not be able to mix. That means I can’t use any of them. I will be buying replacements at Lowes.
I think it’s obvious that I would not buy them again nor recommend them to others.
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Wait till it rots in a few years.
I am not impressed with yellawood
Yellawood (by Osmose) has limited warranty w/exclusion(s). Exclusion pertaining to your complaint:
“Osmose is not responsible for damage to products treated with micronized copper quaternary preservatives by Great Southern Wood caused by the ‘weathering’ of wood, including but not limited to raised grain, splitting, checking, twisting, warping, shrinkage, swelling or any other physical property of the wood.”
So, before you badmouth the product further, I have two questions for you:
1. What part of the warranty did you not understand when purchasing this product?
2. What wood manufacturer does cover the exclusion mentioned above?
Seems to me that you’re expecting the performance of cellular PVC for your exterior deck project. You pay more for that.
Exclusion for weathering is one thing, but this material arrived too warped to use. That's defective merchandise to me.
As soon as a tree dies or is cut down it starts to "weather". Upon arrival at your property it was well past that point with its cells already having been treated with preservative chemicals and kiln dried.
BTW, If it was too warped to use, that it should have been easily identified upon arrival and refused. That way it stays the yards "defective merchandise" and not yours. In fact you probably could have returned it within a week or so with no questions asked. I know my lumber supplier has done this on numeriouls occasions when a delivery did not meet my expectation.