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Child safe wood preservative

Wavey · 2012-12-29 10:39:00

Morning All, I have just finished building a tree house for the kids and have started looking into wood preservative options. It seems that the safety of wood preservative for childrens play houses is a bit of a minefield. Can anybody offer any advice as to what is normally used on outdoor childrens play houses? The…

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Wavey

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Morning All,

I have just finished building a tree house for the kids and have started looking into wood preservative options.
It seems that the safety of wood preservative for childrens play houses is a bit of a minefield.
Can anybody offer any advice as to what is normally used on outdoor childrens play houses?

The material I have used is rough cut white deal.

Thanks!

Wavey.

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#2 29-12-2012 11:15am

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As far as I know all the usual preservatives like Sadolin are OK for kids once dried.( would they really market a finish which is toxic ? ) The exception is Creosote but that is banned anyway.
Wooden toys are a different matter - there are enamel paints which are usually labelled 'child safe'

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