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At the beginning of summer, I bought a little fold-down table for my balcony, the kind you hang over the balcony rail. It's wooden and looks really nice, but the metal hooks that go over the rail are far too wide, which made the table hang crookedly. I went down into my cellar and found a piece of board that I could put between the rail and the hooks, and then it worked perfectly.
But now that it's been raining for a bit, I came out and noticed that the piece of plank has turned a bright poison-green colour, and this green colour has been rubbing off on the rail as well. Apparently the plank was pressure-impregnated (?) with something that didn't show until it got rained on. It's green only in patches, too. Bugger. I need to get a new piece of plank (preferrably not the kind that turns green), but when you go to DIY or wood stores they won't sell short pieces of wood to you, you have to buy whole lengths of the stuff. Meh.
But now that it's been raining for a bit, I came out and noticed that the piece of plank has turned a bright poison-green colour, and this green colour has been rubbing off on the rail as well. Apparently the plank was pressure-impregnated (?) with something that didn't show until it got rained on. It's green only in patches, too. Bugger. I need to get a new piece of plank (preferrably not the kind that turns green), but when you go to DIY or wood stores they won't sell short pieces of wood to you, you have to buy whole lengths of the stuff. Meh.