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Pressure treated wood fence with black mold? newsgroup 03-20-2007
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Posted by newsgroup on March 20, 2007, 11:58 pm


I special order 15 pressure treated wood fence panels from local Home
Depot. The contractor shipped and installed them to my back yard just
10 days ago. I found out there are black mold all over 15 panels, some
more some less.

I went back to customer service, they told me pressure treated wood
won't get mold, and is mold resistant. I called and complain to HD. The
manager told me that is normal with "minor" mold. I called Lowes and
they told me it is rare at all. (I did not tell the Lowe's guy where I
get fences from.)

I am stuck here. What should I do? I don't want to use bleach to kill my
fruit trees next to fences. HD refuse do anything except telling me to
get a bucket of solution to wash them off. The fences came here new
with lots of black mold!!

So my question is here, it that common for molding on pressure treated
wood? What should I do for those errors HD made and the molding problem
I have on the back yard? Thanks

Posted by The_Critic on March 21, 2007, 12:09 am





>I special order 15 pressure treated wood fence panels from local Home
>Depot. The contractor shipped and installed them to my back yard just 10
>days ago. I found out there are black mold all over 15 panels, some more
>some less.
>
> I went back to customer service, they told me pressure treated wood won't
> get mold, and is mold resistant. I called and complain to HD. The manager
> told me that is normal with "minor" mold. I called Lowes and they told me
> it is rare at all. (I did not tell the Lowe's guy where I get fences
> from.)
>
> I am stuck here. What should I do? I don't want to use bleach to kill my
> fruit trees next to fences. HD refuse do anything except telling me to get
> a bucket of solution to wash them off. The fences came here new with lots
> of black mold!!
>
> So my question is here, it that common for molding on pressure treated
> wood? What should I do for those errors HD made and the molding problem I
> have on the back yard? Thanks

A power washer should remove the mold.



Posted by PaPaPeng on March 21, 2007, 2:44 am


wrote:

>I am stuck here. What should I do? I don't want to use bleach to kill my
>fruit trees next to fences. HD refuse do anything except telling me to
>get a bucket of solution to wash them off. The fences came here new
>with lots of black mold!!


Take photos and show them along with your HD receipt and the
contractor's receipt to the HD store manager and get whatever
satisfaction you can. I don't suppose you want to remove and return
the fence boards. Maybe HD can give you a can of anti-mold paint or
whatever.

Posted by on March 21, 2007, 5:36 am



>wrote:
>
>>I am stuck here. What should I do? I don't want to use bleach to kill my
>>fruit trees next to fences. HD refuse do anything except telling me to
>>get a bucket of solution to wash them off. The fences came here new
>>with lots of black mold!!
>
>
>Take photos and show them along with your HD receipt and the
>contractor's receipt to the HD store manager and get whatever
>satisfaction you can. I don't suppose you want to remove and return
>the fence boards. Maybe HD can give you a can of anti-mold paint or
>whatever.

If you didn't actually see the black mold before the contractor
installed the fences, I'd even go a little stronger than the above
suggestion. When you said "HD refuse to do anything..."
what did you mean? Usually contacting Customer Service will get you
exactly zilch. Same with store manager. That's why people on this NG
including moi are so negative about dealing with HD

If you have it in writing that they refuse (do you?), I'd write to
the corporate office -- CEO or President. Send Certified Mail,
Return Receipt,and include copy of HD's refusal.

If you don't yet have it in writing, send the same kind of (polite)
demand letter to the HD contact who blew you off. If they don't
answer in writing, send copies of the Certified post office receipt
with your letter to the CEO of HD.

All this said in total ignorance of the world of treated wood.
Does "pressure treated" wood have chemicals injected into it?

I have heard that the stuff they use on "treated wood" which people
use to build raised beds can leach into vegetables . T/F?
So maybe the mold isn't the worst of your problems.

Persephone



Posted by newsgroup on March 21, 2007, 10:12 am


aspasia wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am stuck here. What should I do? I don't want to use bleach to kill my
>>> fruit trees next to fences. HD refuse do anything except telling me to
>>> get a bucket of solution to wash them off. The fences came here new
>>> with lots of black mold!!
>>
>> Take photos and show them along with your HD receipt and the
>> contractor's receipt to the HD store manager and get whatever
>> satisfaction you can. I don't suppose you want to remove and return
>> the fence boards. Maybe HD can give you a can of anti-mold paint or
>> whatever.
>
> If you didn't actually see the black mold before the contractor
> installed the fences, I'd even go a little stronger than the above
> suggestion. When you said "HD refuse to do anything..."
> what did you mean? Usually contacting Customer Service will get you
> exactly zilch. Same with store manager. That's why people on this NG
> including moi are so negative about dealing with HD
>
> If you have it in writing that they refuse (do you?), I'd write to
> the corporate office -- CEO or President. Send Certified Mail,
> Return Receipt,and include copy of HD's refusal.
>
> If you don't yet have it in writing, send the same kind of (polite)
> demand letter to the HD contact who blew you off. If they don't
> answer in writing, send copies of the Certified post office receipt
> with your letter to the CEO of HD.
>
> All this said in total ignorance of the world of treated wood.
> Does "pressure treated" wood have chemicals injected into it?
>
> I have heard that the stuff they use on "treated wood" which people
> use to build raised beds can leach into vegetables . T/F?
> So maybe the mold isn't the worst of your problems.
>
> Persephone
>
>


I spot the mold right after the contractor installed the fences. I even
send mold pictures to assistant store manager. He told me they (HD) can
only give me some kind of "a bucket of solution" to clean up the mold.
I am not happy with that answer. I think HD should do a better quality
control. Sell black mold fence panels at brand new price sounds crime to
me.

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