Examples of nails suitable for treated wood?

[smp50]

I've read that treated wood is highly corrosive to most metal fasteners and special types must be used. I must say that I had never respected this requirement in the past when it came to nailing into fence posts and so on. I'm building a shed floor frame from treated wood now and don't want to ruin it with the wrong nails (it will probably be nails rather than screws as I don't have a driver and my wrists don't fancy that kind of work).

Can anyone post examples from a large UK supplier of what sort of nails are actually OK? I just get mine from a local independent hardware store and they're all in big bins, bought by weight. No info or details about them.


Thanks,

 

[r896neo]

Generally speaking galvanised ring shank nails are what you want for outdoor construction. you can get stainless steel for work that will be on show such as cladding.

 

[ladylola]

I've spent most of my time having stainless fixings specified but that's probably overkill. I've read about certain treatments attacking steel nails but evidently using galvanised will solve the problem and they're pretty cheap and most likely available at that store you get your other nails from.

 

[Ouch77]

If it's outside then you'll want galvanized or some sort of corrosion resistant nails regardless. I've recently used some 'Sheradised' nails, which has a black finish, but is acutally zinc plated through vapor deposition.

These are what I bought