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schach on wooden slabs

Hello Rabbis, my wife and I are planning in advance on making a Succah on a small balcony in the apartment we’re living in. Question: is it acceptable to use pressure treated wood or metal brackets on the building wall that could support a wooden trellis that we would attach as scach (roof)? (We would also use wood trellis for the other 3 walls that support the scach (the side apposite the wall and the two short side walls).
Our concern if whether the scach (roof) can touch the pressure treated wood or metal brackets on the brick wall?
Hoping this question makes sense,
With thanks,
Rick Lobel

In the halachos of kashrus we find that the mixing of milk and meat can either by done by the milk and meat mixing.
Or by their taste mixing The taste of food can transfer either when the food is at the heat of 45 Celsius (while some are machmir at 40 Celsius) or if the food is sharp and cut with a knife. if the food is not sharp or hot the taste which is in the food will not transfer over via the vessels which are being used unless the vessel being used is unclean as the hen there is actual food left there which is giving over the taste.
Therefore, theoretically speaking if you wash down the mixer after usage you can surely use it for dairy and thereafter for pareve with no concern at all.
For this reason there is no problem to use the same machine for both dairy and pareve yet if the machine is not totally clean you should wipe it down the machine after using for dairy before you use it for pareve if you want the pareve to certainly remain pareve.

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ראה יורה דעה סי’ צ”ד ס”ו סי’ צ”ו סי’ א’ וס”ה וראה סי’ צ”א ס”ב.