Can you use Treated Wood with Aluminum? GAME CHANGING ANSWER!!!! pt. 5, Jon to bass boat build 

You used my comment!! Glad you checked into it and it worked out. Non metallic may be a big part of it, copper is the issue with some PT wood. I'm glad you confirmed my suspicions that some treated woods can work.

Thanks for your research and making this video.

Thanks For the info and for sharing!!..much apreciated

Thanks for the information you saved me a ton of money. THANK YOU

Great video! Great info

This is great info. Thanks for clarifying this issue with facts and links to your sources. Thanks!

Thanks for the info

Man I’ve never heard that before... I’m so glad I seen this video before I start my boat project ... thank you so much for sharing this info 👍👍👍👍

I'm glad you did your own research and found out that you didn't need to start over.

Great information. I’m sure it worked out well for you brother. God Bless

This just saved me a whole lot of painting

Fantastic video kig.. I have been wrestling with this subject for months now. Your research and analysis was amazing.

SOOOOO glad you posted this video. I ran into the same thing, even called Lowes and they told me it would corrode the aluminum. Thank you!

Thank You!!!

Glad I seen this. I'm fixing to build a big can on my aluminum flat bottom. 20 by 5. This looks liie the right wood at lowes

You are the man! I just started my build and have been stressing all the time it has been taking to try and water proof my wood. I’m going to head to Lowes and get some of the treated wood you researched. Thanks again!

Yes it will eat it aways best thing to do is get the wood an soak it with treatment an put something in between the wood an boat like foam or padding....works great

This helps thanks🙂👊

The bunks on my 2006 bass boat trailer finally wore out and I replaced them myself. I do not know what lumber was used originally but I checked the bottom of the boat and there was no damage. This was in 2015 so whatever the wood it must have been pretty good, treated or not. Anyway, I had some two by fours on hand from a previous project and had been in my attic out of the weather for several years. It was in good shape, no warpage, no knot holes, etc but there wasn't enough to do 4 bunks. Off to Lowes I go to buy more. Did so and off to the launch. Took me just a couple of hours and I was back home slapping myself on the back for having done such a great job. Yes, I had looked at You Tube for comments on how to do the job. Sure enough, there are the pros and cons of using treated, pressure treated, non treated, and such. I used the wood that is mentioned in this presentation by Kig outdoors. I jack up my boat two or three times a year to check what's going on and nothing is going on, no pitting, rusting, or holes five years after the job. I'm either lucky or this guy is right, and I think he's right.

I just painted/sealed my treated lumber and laid foam tape across the struts. No contact. Besides that wood isn't going to eat through the aluminum for a long time. Think about how old these boats we are redoing are, and you only find a few pit marks and few actual holes. It was the rivets that did the most leaking. Great job can't wait to see the finish product.

Thanks a lot man. I just put a sub floor in read don’t use pressure treated so I came across your video. I bought mine at Lowe’s as well and the tags saws EL2. My 2x4 are the bad stuff though. Switch out a little bracing and I should be good. Thanks again. Subscribed

I put treated plywood and carpet in my old tracker several years ago. I must have got lucky with the type I purchased because I didn't have any issues. I never would have thought about different types of treated wood reacting with the aluminum. All the time, money, and energy on that project. I would have been crushed if it destroyed my boat... Thanks for the very informative video!

Yeah I thought I messed up too after decking out our boat in pressure treated wood from menards. But after doing some research, menards AC2 pressure treated plywood is also safe with aluminum. I even contacted the manufacturing company and they confirmed it is safe with aluminum. Just wanted to let you and others know that menards is another option. Just make sure it is AC2 treated.

Gaps age important when hinging. Consider carpet tolerance also. Good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got my uncle’s 14 foot aluminum fishing boat and did a few thing like your boat up in the bow but he used unpainted aluminum from highway signs and when I started fixing it up the aluminum in contact with the steel and aluminum in the seats destroyed the seats so I ripped everything out and Ann in the process of rebuilding everything I’m using pressure treated plywood from home depot but the one thing I’m doing different is all the plywood is coated with several layers of fiberglass to protect the wood and the inside is repainted. So far it’s going great but being that I live in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and I don’t have a garage and the date is 9-5-2021 I have about 40 days before snow starts. Thanks for the information and good luck.

Oh man now I have to go check my wood. I hope I’m as lucky as you lol

Back in the day, they used coppertox to treat wood. Needless to say, it had copper in it and two dissimilar metals will corrode. Good info on the new stuff.

This is what AI Chat Says. "When copper and aluminum are in contact with each other in the presence of an electrolyte containing ions, such as saltwater, an electrical potential difference is created between them. This can cause the aluminum to corrode and form holes." I would have never guessed it. Getting ready for a repair myself. Thanks Sir.

I’m currently converting a 16 foot bass tracker into a bass boat again. Although you went with the safe treated plywood for aluminum. I went with non treated but I coated the wood twice with an oil based enamel and siliconed the edges. Which I got the idea from Michael Lopez. Either way it’ll do the same job as what you did. Good luck to you!

Very interesting...I am in the process of replacing the plywood floor in my Jon boat a few places have started to fail after 28 years....I used pressure treated 2 X4 's after 28 years there is NO sign of Aluminum pitting perhaps I just got lucky ??? Or perhaps the adhesive acted like a buffer in any event I plan on using the same 2 X4's they are still in great shape. Thank You for all your research certain your video will help many !!

I built new bunks for my lund last year used 2x6 treated wood from home depo. wrapped in carpet made from bunks..I hope it s good type of treated wood? I didn t know was differant types ..Thought doing something good using pressure treated??

If it's kept dry you can use a membrane to seperate the wood from the metal, but in a boat if it gets wet it will leach out onto the metal. You can use cedar wood it is rot resistant.

Man I'm down! I used treated in 4 builds. But i had corrosion with wood from Lowe's. Go to my channel, i put a picture up of one of my supports in a video. It was pitted and corroded. My video wasn't appreciated.... most likely different parts of the country use different suppliers. Good job returning fire.

New friend here nice video

I used treated wood on a jon boat build some 15 year ago and it is still going strong. Great video

What? Omg this just saved my boat build. Where I live I can’t find marine grade wood within 100 miles and still can’t find any beside the internet. I want to paint / seal it so I need to get to the next videos. New sub lol. Thank you for this

How is the plywood on the aluminum boat doing? 2 years now , I'm fixing to do my boat and wood like to know if Ecolife specs are true

This sounds like good wood you have found. I have always used 3/4 “marine plywood where re decking Lowe’s and Home Depot will get it for you. This is what boat builds such as tracker uses is Marine plywood. . .but is is about 100.00 bucks a sheet. looks like you coming along good.

... and I just pulled the new treated bunks off my boat trailer.

Its about fishing and what you can afford ..I got a a 12ft tinner and Marine plywood is heavy ! I can't afford cedar or tubular aluminium and rivets with air tools...lol

So that brand of plywood is safe that is good to know. My question to you is did you look into the 2xs that you used? Those look pretty green? which in all the damaged boats I repair seems to be the green treat/pressure treated or CCA that causes the issues.

I imagine the ground contact pressure treated wood would have the copper in it to "ground" the wood in case of lightning strikes

i have a question ok to use osb on aluminum boat

This video just ruined my day... I’m now waiting on a response from Home Depot, ProWood and weather shield. Nothing in the material data so I’m just crossing my fingers. This video was very helpful though. Thanks

I wish I would've seen this a week ago before I spent the cash on marine grade

I googled around and it seems that CCA PT wood is okay to use together but the wood and metal needs to be kept from direct contact by separating the two with a rubber or plastic sheeting,, or the likes. I do believe that a layer of deck carpet between the deck plywood and aluminum boat should be work even better. Or use a rubber or plastic membrane,, and the carpet together.

I'm not going to tell you what or how .... But .... I just got off the phone with the Tucker People, provider of treated lumber for Lowe's H.I.S. in the Carolina area ... They said don't use their product on aluminium... The copper azole is in their product too. Your area might be different. The Tucker people were super helpful.

The reason people are saying you cant is because treated wood used to be treated with copper sulfate.. which will indeed destroy aluminum... most treated wood is no longer treated with copper sulfate as its hazardous to the environment

I want to see the video in 5 years when you pull some of the wood up where it's been in contact with the aluminum. We could then see for our selves. I'm nut saying your wrong, I just think it would be interesting.

2 years later how is it holding up

How can I have pressure treated plywood in my aluminum trailer without corrosion? The Short Answer: A Barrier Membrane between the aluminum and pressure treated plywood. As long as the aluminum is not directly touching the pressure treated plywood, you will not experience any corrosion or reaction between the two. I'm putting a layer of 6mm plastic on edge witch will me covered bi carpet. But it's been a few years for you . How did it work out ?

Since it’s been a year, has there been any issues with the pressure treated ecolife plywood on your aluminium boat? Also I looked up the pdf document and it directly states don’t use on aluminum..

The problem is everyone wants to repeat what others say and think theyre smart. By the time youre done painting, epoxing, or what every your going to do to the wood, is it really going to touch aluminum? Plus on top of that youre most likely going to carpet the wood. Another barrier between wood and aluminum. Just do what youre doing and youll be fine.. Beware of trolls

just put a buffer between the wood and aluminum. rubber, silicone

It’s been a year bro how has the wood lasted?

This is great to know. I've seen these same RU-vid videos too saying the same thing over and over. I guess it really does depend on the ingredient used. There is a process that uses formaldehyde to pressure treat wood, maybe that is the stuff that eats aluminum, and this might be where all this started. I've seen video footage of old boats being severely pitted that had treated lumber, so this may have had an earlier chemical process that was used but modern materials now are used to accommodate aluminum applications of all types as more and more aluminum is being used for weight savings in many applications beside boats. It's good that you did your homework rather than to just follow along with the "herd".

I made that mistake on a transome 10 years back and it ate my boat, if you leave that wood in there pay close attention to your boat corroding

I know you said all your wood is treated even the plywood, but I look up treated plywood from Lowe’s and it’s pressure treated with CA!?!

Did you hurry and put the deck on so we couldn't see the corrosion? Lol. Just kidding! Looking good

Any news

Can I make a 1959 rich line into a bass boat

hey man don't use treated wood on your aluminum jon boat. lol good video i didnt know you could use ceretin types of treated wood

Chromium copper whats in reguler pressure treated iv seen a 4x4 post eat up coil stock aluminum they wrapped it in all treated not alike depends on the manufacture

If the wood is pressure treated with MCA or any other copper based treatment do not use it in aluminum boat projects as this pressure treating solution will cause dissimilar metal corrosion .

Lmao just cause the paper say it could be used doesn't mean its ok to use no lmao i got a paper say the beer i buy saying i will get drunk but i drink 5 case's an still not drunk 😂😂😂😂😂 lmao dont use treated wood if u do 5y later u will be working on yo boat walls an ribs ....i got a boat 7 years ago not old at all an the ribs like chalk an the walls rite were the treated wood is is like chalk i had gotten a new boat an soaked untreated wood an still look new today an its been 2y now 😂😂😂😂

you got $1,500 worth of wood now.... lol

Why not treat it yourself with 2 part epoxy resin last forever

You should never use pressure treated wood on an aluminum boat. Over time the chemicals used to treat the wood will react with the aluminum and it actually starts to corrode/pit the aluminum

i'm telling you're going to ruin your boat use soon as you hit the water