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  • THE PRESSURE TREATING PROCESS

The Pressure Treating Process

For Eastern wood species, watch the video how wood is pressure treated. 

For dense Western wood species, watch this sort animated video.

The treating process includes the following 13 steps with some Western species requiring the additional step of incising.

Step 1 in the pressure treating process
Step 2 in the pressure treating process
Step 3 in the pressure treating process
Step 4 in the pressure treating process
Step 5 in the pressure treating process
Step 6 in the pressure treating process
Step 7 in the pressure treating process
Step 8 in the pressure treating process
Step 9a in the pressure treating process
Step 9b in the pressure treating process
Step 10 in the pressure treating process
Step 11 in the pressure treating process
Step 12 in the pressure treating process
Step 13 in the pressure treating process

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