So, I have a fence separating the back alley from my property. 2 of the 5 PT posts rotted out, so I’m replacing them. No problem.
I don’t usually go to the Orange Borg, or the Blue One either, but instead, to my local independent lumber yard since I’m a 30+ year customer there. However their 50 acre property is outdoors and since it’s a builder’s yard, the PT wood is wet - and heavy!
The full 4x4 posts are wet, and I have a feeling that the ones I’m replacing were also wet; they shrunk from the post haste concrete and allowed water pooling inside the “boot” of concrete and accelerated the deterioration.
I can delay doing the fence a few more weeks while I dry the posts inside my house, but does that plan sound logical?