From: "Don Phillipson" 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: are 4 boards creating a post as strong as a 4x4?
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:37:59 -0400
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"KLS"  wrote in message
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> I'm having a debate with a relative about whether the posts on my 1930
> house, constructed with 4 boards, are unsafe.  He thinks they're a
> huge safety hazard, that the house will collapse, and that only 4x4
> should be used to replace these posts.  I think he's full of shit, but

There are in Europe (where the climate is usually wetter) many
thousands of all-wood buildings 300 to 500 years old.  They have
also not yet fallen down.

-- 
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)