Canada is the best source of everything! (just a little birth-country plug)

I look forward to seeing how it turns out. I haven’t visited any blogs in a while, but hope to get back to it once we’re settled in the house – whenever that is. We also have a butt-load of renovations to do. Most of them are simple – painting and whatnot – but we are doing at least one thing to nearly every room and MacGyver really wants to knock down a wall.

As for the safety issues, I agree with you. Many people are just completely unaware that there is potential danger. Good to get the information out there.

A friend who was interested in doing a pallet project for her living room said she had read about how to mitigate pallets but that it was so much work it wasn’t worth the effort to her. Heat treated pallets are supposedly becoming more common. The few I found hanging around Eastern Market were heat treated, which is supposed to remove the chemical concern but you still have to deal with whatever the pallet has picked up over it’s (usually quite long) life. The problem is that the wood is raw and very porous, so it can pick up a lot.

If you’re looking to rehab some pallets, I would start with the link to Organic Authority in the post.