My office is where I meet with customers and vendors (some of my customers do need to be impressed) and serves as a backdrop for product videos. It needs to be a lot more than just functional.
I'm getting to the final stages of finishing out my shop office. The office is built inside a portion of a barn erected in the 60's. The barn was built with creosote power poles. The date stamps on the posts are 40's and 50's. I stick framed all the walls to straighten them out and insulate, but left the poles there. I drywalled right to the posts, but left them exposed. After texture, paint and carefully removing the masking the exposed poles turned out great!
The poles have a genuine "distressed" look to them that I'm carrying through in other areas.
So I'm pretty sure the poles are safe at this point. They don't smell and the office is climate controlled. I don't plan on touching the posts for any reason.
However...
I bought some materials awhile back from a guy that had a cubic shitload of used WWII creosote Mahogony ship decking. These were about 2.5" by 15" deck planks most heavily weathered. I'm considering buying some of those planks for built in shelves.
What kind of health risks am I taking here with the 70+ year old weathered creosote planks? Could they be sealed somehow to mitigate any issues or should I just forget it?
I'm getting to the final stages of finishing out my shop office. The office is built inside a portion of a barn erected in the 60's. The barn was built with creosote power poles. The date stamps on the posts are 40's and 50's. I stick framed all the walls to straighten them out and insulate, but left the poles there. I drywalled right to the posts, but left them exposed. After texture, paint and carefully removing the masking the exposed poles turned out great!
The poles have a genuine "distressed" look to them that I'm carrying through in other areas.
So I'm pretty sure the poles are safe at this point. They don't smell and the office is climate controlled. I don't plan on touching the posts for any reason.
However...
I bought some materials awhile back from a guy that had a cubic shitload of used WWII creosote Mahogony ship decking. These were about 2.5" by 15" deck planks most heavily weathered. I'm considering buying some of those planks for built in shelves.
What kind of health risks am I taking here with the 70+ year old weathered creosote planks? Could they be sealed somehow to mitigate any issues or should I just forget it?