A shorter course in woodworking; a practical manual for home and school . Many preparations and chemical processes have been tried for thepreservation of wood. Creosote is one of the best preservatives and fungi are repelled by its odor. The so-called creosotestains are excellent for outside work, not very expensive, and easilyapplied. Coal-tar and wood-tar or pitch, applied hot in thin coats, arealso good and cheap preservatives. Charring the ends of fence-posts byholding them for a short time over a fire is a common method. Variousexpensive processes for preserving wood are in
A shorter course in woodworking; a practical manual for home and school . Many preparations and chemical processes have been tried for thepreservation of wood. Creosote is one of the best preservatives and fungi are repelled by its odor. The so-called creosotestains are excellent for outside work, not very expensive, and easilyapplied. Coal-tar and wood-tar or pitch, applied hot in thin coats, arealso good and cheap preservatives. Charring the ends of fence-posts byholding them for a short time over a fire is a common method. Variousexpensive processes for preserving wood are in use where large quantitiesare required. Painting with oil paint is of course the most common way ofprotecting wood, but in using any coating, as paint or tar, which interfereswith the process of evaporation, the wood should be thoroughly dry whenit is applied, or the coating will confine the moisture and favor decay. Wet rot is a decay of the unsea-soned wood, which may also becaused in seasoned wood by moisturewith a temperate degree of occurs in wood altern
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