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Re: Can I paint over creosote [Re: AKAjust] #6922307
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Inside the corn crib so I can use it as a shop floor.
I want to paint to stop the smell.
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Re: Can I paint over creosote [Re: AKAjust] #6922314
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Inside the corn crib so I can use it as a shop floor.
I want to paint to stop the smell.
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Think you could sell them to a farmer for fence posts and use the money from the sale plus the savings of the paint, to buy some plywood??? By the time you buy expensive paint, primer, have them cut, etc... they are going to smell and creosote is carcinogenic to breath.

Re: Can I paint over creosote [Re: AKAjust] #6922333
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Isn't a pole round ? Or did you saw them into planks ?

Anyways, paint won't stop the smell . High performance primers of all types won't stop the smell

Shellac is your best bet for odor control . You could use clear shellac if the wood is worthy , or white shellac then you can top coat with whatever paint and color floats your boat.

Shellac is expensive but there is an alternative product for a little less . It's a synthetic shellac.

I've used both on burnt houses with charred black framing and smoke damage.

The synthetic works to about 85 to 90% of the real deal.


Shellac is a resin that is secreted from the lac bug somewhere in Asia or maybe India , making it expensive to gather and produce into a product . Works good though

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Re: Can I paint over creosote [Re: AKAjust] #6922354
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Used inside as flooring... I would think you will get noxious fumes in the winter when you had heat on. Some of the older creosote would also burn your skin when you com in contact with it. I wouldn't even considerate if you have small children or grandchildren.

When I was a kid,, there a creosote producing plant about 7 or 8 miles away from where we lived. In the summer when the wind was blowing from that direction you could hardly sit outside in in a hot humid evening the order was so pungent. There was a gas refinery right next door to the creosote plant and the creosote was produced from the waste pf this plant.

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Re: Can I paint over creosote [Re: AKAjust] #6922377
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Another trailer load of poles at the saw.



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Re: Can I paint over creosote [Re: AKAjust] #6922392
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Once you rip the edges down you won't have much concentrated creosote left will you ?

I'd use a clear shellac all four sides and both ends prior to installation.

Coat one board and after it dries place it in your house over night to see if you can smell the creosote


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I don't think there is much in the interior of the poles. Some of the boards are a lot lighter colored than the others and some I can see color change.
All shellac is interior. I think I need exterior.
I'm wondering about deck sealer.
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It'd be good firewood-creosote wood burns hotter than hades.


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I thought you said it was for flooring .?

If it's for decking , just stain it and call it good . Don't paint it unless you want headaches later.


Or just burn it like boco says


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Are you sure it is creosoted all the way up the pole.
All the hydro poles I have seen are creosoted at the bottom where they go into the ground.The rest of the pole is usually treated with osmose or similar product-it looks very pale green.

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Re: Can I paint over creosote [Re: AKAjust] #6922981
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Most of the poles are close to natural looking wood.
Whats in the ground is very dark and I'm assuming creosote.
The saw dust smells like creosote.
Some of the poles are older and a redish color.
No greenish color.

It is for a floor in an outbuilding (earcorn crib) that I want to turn into a shop. I'm trying to stop the odor. That's what paint is sometimes use for. But if paint won't work I'm up for something else that works ....... ?? like deck sealer??,
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Skunk quill is your best bet ......no mas creosote smell


Problem solved


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