need Ideas - protecting wood outdoors
On the deck outside my camper, my wife wants to put an old Deacons Bench. My concern is the wooden legs, in contact with the decking sounds like a recipe for wood rot. This bench is important to her,...
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3 dog nights wrote:
OK, I'll bite...What's a spar?
Spars:
The thing about the bench legs is that the OP is worried about the water on the deck being trapped under the feet of the bench, leading to the bench feet rotting. I think his worries are misplaced because I have a lot of customers with deck furniture, some on untreated cedar. None of them have moisture issues but we don't live in a jungle up here, either. Regardless, treating with spar varnish is a good way to seal any wood that is left outside.
It's more likely that any moisture in the bench would transpire outward than it is to assume any would be "trapped" inside the legs from traveling down.
