Earthquake construction

[Carey]

Cat, when you buy the wood, the little taggies state that the borate treated wood is only for indoor and weather protected areas. So far, I have not found any wood dealer that handles exterior wood on island, Honsador will order a structural plastic that does come in 4"x4", but as last spring they could only get 54" lengths. They were going to try to get longer stock. We want to redo our lania, only have found a fiberglas post at Lowes that is rated for weather (the lanai posts get rain & such. I wonder what happens to the T-11 ply that is siding for most homes, siding is hardly a weather protected use.
Aloha, Carey