Preserving lumber used outside
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I am doing an outside project using some lumber that is not pressure treated. Some of it will be exposed to the weather. What would be the best way to protect it? Should I paint it or or use a water repellent like you would use on a deck?
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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A good all weather solid colour type stain will do. Re do as required every few years.
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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If its roughsawn you dont have to do anything planed needs to be treated with something regularly
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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It would depend on what type of wood. Case in point......if you cut a Red Oak down and leave it right where it fell, it will be punky and rotted in a matter of a very few years. If you cut that same tree, then put it up off the ground where it will be dry most of the time, it will last decades. Once back in the early 90's my All Purpose Boy and I were Turkey hunting with a friend in central Florida. The gobblers we were hoping to tag lived mostly in a damp section of bottomland that was about half Bald Cypress trees. Mixed in amongst the big cypress were the occasional stumps from cypress that had been logged out just over 100 years before. The size of some of these stumps were impressive, so impressive that I took my son's photo standing next to one whopper. Bottomland cypress tends to butress heavy just above the ground. The loggers had to cut notches in the trees near the tops of these butresses so they could jab in a plank to stand on as they sawed the trees down. There is video of guys doing this very thing back in the 20's and 30's. The notches they cut out laid right on the ground where they fell a century earlier.....the very damp ground. These chunks of wood are probably still there today. Old Growth cypress is extremely rot resistant stuff.
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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A good all weather solid colour type stain will do. Re do as required every few years. This, however, how many people remember to "re do as required every few years"? Not many Also, there are many other thing that come into play; species of wood, heartwood or sap wood, Climate and environment of where the wood is being used. Does any wood rot easily in Kansas? I picture it as a pretty dry climate, but I wouldn't know.
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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The boards are 2x6's used for a base for a hunting platform. The boards covering them are treated. I may get some stain like used on decks and do it all.
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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Paint or waterproof sealer should help.
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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Deck stain. Paint kids playground equipment with that stuff from lowes and it looks brand new. 6 years old.
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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I used untreated 2x6s because I had access to free ones in like new condition. I bought a gallon of waterproofing deck stain today. I think it will do what I want. Thanks for all of the advice.
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Re: Preserving lumber used outside
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I used untreated 2x6s because I had access to free ones in like new condition. I bought a gallon of waterproofing deck stain today. I think it will do what I want. Thanks for all of the advice. Burning the outside with a weed burner does work very well. Brush the loose char off and then use the water proofer of your choosing.
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