Finally went with pressure treated over cedar on a customer's fence line

I've always pushed cedar for the look but after replacing some 5 year old rotted cedar posts last week in Ohio, this new PT job just feels way more solid for the money. Has anyone else made the switch and regretted it later?

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elizabethhart2d ago

... so my buddy down in Cincinnati went with PT for a whole fence line a couple years back, thought he was being smart about it and everything. Now he's calling me complaining about these little cracks showing up on the surface, says it's not holding stain like his neighbor's old cedar did. Cedar just takes the weather better in our humidity I guess, even if it rots out faster in the ground. I helped him set those posts too, felt solid as a rock going in, but now he's worried about splinters for the kids next door...

stellablack2d ago

Your buddy's fence sounds like it's going through the same midlife crisis my deck did last year. I thought I was being smart with pressure treated lumber too, figured I'd save a few bucks and get something that'd last forever. Then the cracks started showing up everywhere, looking like a topographic map of a dry lake bed. Stain just soaked into some spots and peeled off others, made the whole thing look like a bad paint job on a cheap car. Guess I learned the hard way that PT wood and me just don't get along real well. Maybe we should start a support group for people who thought they were being clever with lumber choices.