Do not pay extra for this wood. We built a deck and asked our contractor to use YellaWood thinking it would be better than standard lumber. The supplier hand picked the boards. Not even a month later our wood was weeping sap, cupping and when you walked across it in bare feet it hurt. This deck was worse than the 20+ year old deck we removed. We had a small gap between boards that shrunk up to 1" apart. We had the building materials supplier come and check out our deck. Just so happened a YellaWood rep was coming down soon. The rep came out a took a board back to their lab. To make a long short YellaWood doesn't cover this in their warranty so we paid more for substandard wood. And, to top it off the YellaWood rep said he had seen worse. So if you still think that kiln dried wood is the way to go I don't recommend it as they do not stand behind their product and apparently don't care. If you'd like to see pictures PM me.