Rotting Landscape Timbers
When I built my window well 12 years ago, I used treated wood so it wouldn't rot-yet I recently noticed an end of one timber was rotting. I know I bought the right treated wood for ground contact, so what happened? Even though you used treated ... [... more]
Reader's Digest |
Composite Plastic Timber-Wood Grain
 The Frame It All System Is An Easy To Assemble, All-season Durable, Warp-resistant Landscaping Solution That Is Ideal For Building Raised Bed Flower and Vegetable Gardens, Sandboxes, Playground Borders, Water Gardens and Landscape Edging. Designed To [... more]
$12.99
The Home Depot |
Shiver Me Timbers Hutch - Price Includes Shipping!
The perfect complement for the Shiver Me Timbers Desk with organized storage on its shelf or in its four drawers and center cubby. Features include nautical "rope" trim, arched plank grooved cap rail, and raised base rail for easy wire [... more]
$459.00
Organize |
Extreme Treehouses
Peter Lewis's treehouse, built in a 105-ft. pine tree in southern Maine, rests on a steel hexagon base suspended by cables. Joists made of 5 x 5 hemlock timbers form more hexagons that support the structure. The massive trusses below were built ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Structural Timbers: Built Up Southern Yellow Pine and ...
Structural Timbers: Built Up Southern Yellow Pine and Maximum Spans for Joists and Rafters (1921) [... more]
$7.98
A1 Books |
Shiver Me Timbers Twin Bed
Shiver Me Timbers Twin Bed [... more]
$599.00
Home Decorator's Collection |
Powell 365-255 Shiver Me Timbers Hutch
/features/ The perfect complement for the Shiver Me Timbers Desk with organized storage on its shelf or in its four drawers and center cubby. Features include nautical "rope" trim, arched plank grooved cap rail, and raised base rail for easy [... more]
$459.00
Unbeatable Sale |
Lay an Appealing Brick Patio
DIG AN 8-in. DEEP TRENCH for the 6 X 6 timbers around the patio perimeter. Align the trench with the batterboard strings. LINE the trench with crushed granite; it compacts tighter and forms a more solid base than sand or gravel. COMPACT the ... [... more]
This Old House |
Wanted: Business Process Experts
More and more CIOs are assuming responsibility for business process improvement. Paul Groce, who heads the CIO practice for executive recruiting firm Christian & Timbers, says this is because such projects "almost always" involve the CIO's [... more]
CIO |
Arsenic in Raised Bed Gardens with CCA
Research was conducted to determine if significant or harmful amounts of arsenic were leaching from CCA-treated landscape timbers in raised bed gardens. Two types of raised beds were sampled. The first type were seven years old and tilled every ... [... more]
NC State University Coop Extension |
Fixing America's Infrastructure
In Boston the roof fell in. In New York the lights went out. In Oregon, antiquated bridges suffer from rotting timbers and metal fatigue. America was built with steel and concrete -- and a vision for the future. The future is here -- but it's ... [... more]
Reader's Digest |
How to Make Raised Flower Beds
Raised beds can help define a yard or solve a drainage problem; they're also much easier on your back than beds that are flush with the ground. They can be built of almost anything, but landscape timbers, railroad ties and boards are popular, ... [... more]
eHow |
