For one thing it treated timber in his native Oregon very gently.

To gain access for repairing the brickwork, treating timber or painting, simple unhook the trellis, gently bending the plants back until they lie on the ground.

When treating seasoned timber, both the water and the preservative salt soak into the wood, making it necessary to season the wood a second time.

In 1848, Henry Potter Burt founded Burt, Boulton Holdings Ltd. in England, a company that specialized in treating timber against rot from moisture.

Near by is a creosoting plant for preservatively treating timber, and a shed where upholstery is washed.

The wood preservation and timber industries are therefore researching better ways of dealing with waste treated timber, including CCA-treated material.

In areas (such as the British Isles) where treated timber is relatively inexpensive, wooden fence-posts are used and steel ones are unusual for agricultural purposes.

And if it's just about convenience, we'd all cover our gardens in decking and after a few years of breathing the gasses that come from a lot of pressure treated timber, we could all lie about on the ground twitching.