Anton Shepelev wrote:
dadiOH to Anton Shepelev:
What product should you recommend for treating
the bathroom and kitchen in a log house? It
must help preserve wood in an environment where
large amounts of vapour a regularly released and
water is occasionally splashed onto the walls.
Are you wanting to paint the inside of the logs,
non-log interior walls or cabinets?
All the walls in my house are log-walls. I want to
choose a treatment/finish for the interrior surfaces
of the logs, i.e. those that face inwards. I am not
talking about furniture (cabinets) but about bare
log walls.
OK. Elsewhere, you said you wanted a clear finish. As a practical matter,
you have four choices...
1. poly
2. alkyd
3. nitrocellulose
4. acylic
If you want hardness and durability, oil based poly varnish would be my #1
choice. Water base poly would also be acceptable and could be easier to
apply. Either would be more expensive than the other choices. If you
wanted more than one coat, you would need to apply them at approximately
four hour intervals.
I wouldn't consider pure alkyd varnish, hard to find and the poly would
serve better.
I've never heard of nitrocellulose lacquer being used for something like
this but I suppose it could be. I wouldn't.
There is an acrylic product called Sealkrete Original. It is used primarily
for vertical, cementatious surfaces but can be used on pretty much anything.
I have no experience with it on large wood surfaces but it might work. It
is relatively inexpensive, water base and can be sprayed with a garden type
sprayer. A recommended use is as a paint additive. It does not form a film
unless multiple coats are applied; a film from it is not hard and brittle
but rubbery/stretchy like most acrylic films.
http://www.sealkrete.com/find-a-prod.../original.aspx
FWIW, the semi-log house in my sig has nothing on the interior log walls.
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dadiOH
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