creasote!

Hello again. We will be making an old 5'x5' playhouse into a big house so we can have a few more girls and have read that creasote is good to paint the inside with because red mites dont like it, but I can only find the creasote substitute and I understand that it has to be the real thing!? Does anybody know if you can you still buy it??? and if so where?

The 'proper' creosote is only now available in I thilnk 50 gallon drums to those people who hold HSE licences to use it,.  I thinkl this would be far too much for what you are intending.  I've also posted elsewhere tonight about another common product that is ending, Sodium Chlorate (weedkiller next July) but all paint will be water based from 2010.

You can buy it in SPALDING!!!!  But its 5 gallons at a time, we had no trouble getting it.  Just told them it was for our chicken houses.

But yes you do have to leave the house open for at last a week, we left ours for 2 weeks as Munty told me that any fumes left can kill the chickens.  But I was also worried about them pecking the insides as they were creosoted as well as the outside.  So Brian lined the bottom half of the house with hardboard and I still poultryshield that just in case!