We cut back our pine trees and sap dripped everywhere. It is now dry and staining the deck. Any suggestions? A: Sap from trees — pines or others — is a real problem on decks, especially after ...

I have even had some very nice spalted oak before, but again, this was only in the sap wood. All of the boards looked perfectly normal on the heartwood sides, except for some worm holes.

Carbonated wood – what’ll they think of next? A couple of decades ago, science was at a loss to explain how sap flow worked. We observed that below-freezing nights and warm days produced a run.

STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) - Retired builder Allen Webb remembers using sap-hardened, pine lumber for decades. Most firefighters call it "fat lighter" now when those old homes burn in a matter of minutes. ...