[Greenbuilding] Hello to all

[wmdorsett at sbcglobal.net]

White oak has about the same rot resistance as redwood.

Bill Dorsett
Sunwrights
Manhattan, KS

Tom Young wrote:
> Hello to all -- I just wanted to drop a note to introduce us as new members. 
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> There are several posts in the archives that I found quite interesting.  The one of greatest interest was on OAK timbers. 
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> About 20 years ago I lived in a 140 yr old farm house in North Carolina to restore.  The house was built of wood harvested, sawn and air dried on the property.  The beams and floor joists in the house were white oak. When I purchased the home we had an inspection that to our surprise found only two problems with the old timbers -- a 1/2 inch area of dry rot on a step at the bottom of the stairs into the root cellar and a 2 sq inch section of a beam that sat on top of the stacked stone foundation. 
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