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Hi! This is John on behalf of Expert Village. In this video clip, I will be talking about
buying lumber. Here I have two different types of lumber. This piece of lumber is treated
and this piece of lumber is untreated. You know that it is treated because it is green.
It is going to be a lot heavier and it almost feels kind of wet. Our untreated lumber will
be quite a bit dryer, lighter and it just feels dry. Since we are going to be building
our wall so that it sits on the floor which is made of concrete, we are going to need
to put treated lumber. The reason why we use treated lumber is because treated lumber does
not rot, bugs won’t eat it, and it’s not going to get termites in it or anything like
that. So anywhere our wall is going to touch the concrete, we are going to make sure that
we have this treated lumber. Before you begin, you are going to want to make sure you have
enough lumber so you will need to calculate out how much lumber you are going to need
to buy. Figure that you will be putting a stud or an untreated piece of wood every 16
inches. As you calculate out for your lumber, you will know that there will be a stud on
the end of the wall and then a stud every 16 inches.