Wood processing lime: People's way of protecting

To live in a wooden house, filled with special light and fresh air, - a pleasure. But this housing is not without drawbacks. The most important of these - the probability of ignition of wood designs, the risk of rot and fungal attack and insects. There are many ways to protect the wooden house, or items made of wood from negative influences. Today we look at the most simple, environmentally friendly and, as we are assured the forum users - useful for health - lime.

It has always been considered a good antiseptic, which protect the walls of the various problems and at the same time disinfected air. However, if earlier whitewash trimmed almost the entire room, now covered with lime, mostly hidden wooden parts at home: rafters, joists, the joists on the floor and others. Cottagers argue that boards are treated as new, even after several decades.

Lime and salt for wood 

The simplest "recipe" whitewash boards - lime, mixed with salt and water. Member forumhouse.ru Temra It does not recommend the purchase process the walls dry slaked lime house - the walls are dirty. Use quicklime: it is quenched, add salt (salt as a preservative for wood strengthens its structure and shine), and this solution whitewashed walls.

Was slaked in a container that will withstand the high temperatures of the reaction lime - a metal bucket. It does not close tightly - to the steam inside. Note that when hydrated lime is 2-3 times increase in volume. Therefore, did not immediately fall asleep much lime, about 2-3 kg. Water is taken 3-4 times more than the amount of slaked lime. It does not matter if it is a bit more - it boils away. Once all of the flood water, cover the container lid and approach it before the end of the reaction (to determine the hearing). After cooling lime dilute it with water to a consistency of a very fluid cream and add color, can be "bluing" - 1 tbsp. l. 1-2 liters of water. All - you can whiten! According to Temra, Lime processing boards such composition ensures that the walls do not shine and does not leave traces after the light touch to them.

The diluted water status lime can be stored for a long time, the main thing - to prevent it from drying out, continually adding water. If slaked lime is still dry, all the moisture has evaporated, then you have to throw it.

Whitewash walls of the timber is also used lime-clay-salt coating (IGSO). For processing 1 sq. m surface, you will need the following materials:

• Lime paste - 74% (or 1 kg 36 g);
• Clay - 4% (56 g);
• Sodium chloride - 11% (154 g);
• Water - 11% (154 g).

A total of 1.4 kg of solution.

To obtain the desired consistency of water solution can increase or decrease.

IGSO prepared in wooden or metal tanks with corrosion-resistant coating. The lime is milled and sieved through a sieve, kneaded with water into dough in a ratio of 1: 1. To get more dough, knead for 1-2 days to complete the preparation of coating. Table salt was ground and sieved, too, is mixed with the water and clay is added. Clay dough is thoroughly mixed with lime - IGSO ready for use. Store the solution in a closed container.

To increase the flame resistance properties, forumchane advised to add lime-hydrochloric plaster mixture of borax and boric acid (these are also antiseptics). You will need 45g / l of borax and 30 g / l of boric acid.

Bluestone as a wood preservative

Member forumhouse.ru Kaktuss I made as follows: 2 kg lime threw in 5-6 liters of water, separately spread 50 g of copper sulfate in 0.5 l of water, added to 300 g of about a pound of salt and soaked clay. This composition forumchanin covered mauerlat and joists (the last pre-burned oxygen burner). Treated this means the wood is not wet, even for two to torrential rains.

How to whiten

Plaster is applied by brush in several layers. Each layer whitewash should dry completely (for IGSO - is not less than 12 hours). Finally, the solution dries after day.

We should not make the solution thicker consistency, in order to reduce the number of layers of whitewash. This may result in that the layer of lime after a time lag behind the surface.

To align the stripes from the brush stroke, after drying of one layer is applied next in the opposite direction. Further, the brush area as alternates. The last layer applied on the window so as not to be seen smears. Likewise whitewashed walls and the outside of the house.

Podbelivat walls need every year, only one layer. This is necessary in order to update the wall and to the lime is not crystallized, and has not lost the form and its antiseptic properties.

That's all the secrets of whitewash. In one of our next article we will tell about other ways to protect the wooden house: Painting and daubing oil-wax impregnating and much more.

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