American Reacts Why is New Zealand Timber Pink???

American Guy Reacts Why is New Zealand Timber Pink???
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[morrisanderson]

Its treated because of our weather down here, which is high rainfall, and the cladding we us

[Max_Chaddington]

"Four seasons in one day".
A famous saying about New Zealand.

[kevinmoore]

Netting: You may have also noticed the scaffolding as well meaning ppl working at heights. The netting is a safety measure against falls.

[nicholasmaude]

The pink colour comes from preservative treatment of the timber to prevent things such as dry-rot.

[craigshrimpton]

The net across the top of the walls are a safety measure when working at height in case someone falls inwards and also scaffolding surrounds the building at the same time.

[RedDeadPandaGaming]

Guess its partly due to the climate in NZ, so the pine trees grown in NZ will take 25yrs to grow to where it's mature enough to use for building where as in the nothern hemisphere it would take 75yrs and that is due to the different climate

[MrWillt]

Remember it disappears once covered up. Sort of like whether it is pink purple black or what ever, it eventually gets covered up so once you get over the fact that it is pink then your life can move on. You can see at a glance exactly how that timber has been treated i.e. what type of treatment they have used, what you call colour coding which you may use sometimes in the USA.

[p.e.amueli]

Due to New Zealand weather they treat the timber ❤ New Zealand 🇳🇿 here

[ytmalacore]

Treated lumber is mostly green-ish in south EU, and it is mostly used for gardens and outdoor stuff.

[llearch]

FWIW, New Zealand is arguably (parts are not, but we're generalising across the country) a temperate rainforest for most of it; consider it like Seattle, I think, in terms of rainfall, humidity, etc. It's also cold enough that most snakes would struggle to survive. Given the rainfall, that's likely a large part of why "it'll rot real fast".

[wax]

The real reason why its pink is so you know its been treated. it would look the normal wodden colour if it didnt get dyed

[lorrefl]

Here in Belgium it's always green... but we don't have any insects like termites that eat wood here.
But we don't build our houses out of timber but with an inner and outer wall out of brick with insulation in between (inner wall can be concrete but I don't think it's used as much in Belgium as brick). So the pressure treated green pine is for the roof and in the garden.
I always think it's weird that countries that have termites go and build houses out of wood. That's asking for trouble.

[woundedmonk]

its highly dependent on the weather in your area in the world as to what sort of treatment process it goes through.

[mohammedbinladen]

NZ technically does have a native snake, the sea snake, but it is rarely seen here. There were a few cases reported of people coming across the sea snake last year I think it was. When the sea is warm enough they sometime make their way from Australia to our waters and because they are not brought over by humans they are classed as native.

[jillmortlock]

Nz has three species of native termites NONE of which are destructive.

[mohammedbinladen]

I am a New Zealander and have never seen pink lumber either, I have only ever seen normal wood coloured lumber.

[julesmarwell]

fancy building a timber house in the Northern Territory (Australia) were a termite mount could be two metres high .We dye our timber green. btw its toxic as well.

[graziellaacquarola]

In Europe we have brick houses ..we don't have wood homes...our roofs are made of clay...Hi from Italy ❤

[cadifan]

No we do not have snakes in NZ. I've never seen a house built of anything but pink timber, I thought the entire world built houses with pink treated timber. That's what pink treated timber is for. Green is more for marine applications.

[logwhitley]

I suspect the pink is a colouring not just the treatment