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A: Would wrapping a wood fence post in plastic help protect it?

I have been a fence contractor for 25 years. It is important to keep the soil away from the base of the post. Wood rot starts there because of moisture, microbes and fungus. Post rot does not start underground because there is no oxygen there or fuel. It is important to crown or slope the conc...

Spam?

Most spam seems to show very little effort, a small blurb and a link. This post explains the situation, and recommends a product to solve the problem. It reads more like a guy who just likes the product, and it has pictures!

Niall C.

12:10 PM

@Tester101 there's a

Niall C.

12:25 PM

Sorry. On my tablet. According to LinkedIn, there's a Troy Emmett works for the company linked in that post. Hence my self promotion comment

Tester101

Good detective work.

Q: Storing food in dry ice box. How much of the dry ice?

I would like build a package with frozen (to the temperature of -18 ° C.) food products. The products are small balls - diameter of 4 cm. Balls are made from pizza dough.Total balls weight is 10 kg. (333 balls, 30 grams each). I'm going to put them into a styrofoam package (sealed, insulated) t...

Does this question fit on any other site?

Maybe cooking or physics?

Not sure why the asker thought it fit on home improvement

Chris Cudmore

1:11 PM

I tried to VTC, migrate to cooking. But it only gave me the option of meta.diy.stackexchange.com as the target site.

Flagged it, with above comment in "needs mod. attn."

Is this off topic?

Q: How to remove an 8cm DVD disc from a player with disc slot

I have a blu-ray player(LG bh7220) with a disc slot, where the disc is drawn in and pushed out by the device without a disc tray. Today my daughter got an 8cm DVD disc and inserted it in the player. The player pulled the disc in, but then nothing happend. I checked the manual, it mentions only 12...