Treatment of logs with protective compounds: internal and external. How and how to process a rounded log

To build strong secure home from natural wood, first of all, you should take care of the quality of the base material. In this regard, it is important not only to choose the right breed, but also the principle of processing the log. From how professionally the work of the initial cutting and further calibration will be performed, how suitable the chosen technology is to the architectural idea of ​​​​the project of the house, comfortable living in it in the future completely depends.

To give a felled tree desired shape several technologies are used today.

They differ mainly in the tool with which the work is performed:

1. Axe.
2. Skobel.
3. Electroplaner.
4. Milling machine.

The chosen method affects both the future attractiveness of the entire building and the quality of strength. In each individual case, corresponding to the applied processing technology, a certain complex is preserved natural properties and no less important characteristics are added, created artificially in the process of wood preparation.

Advantages and disadvantages of each technology

To determine the most suitable way for a specific project, familiarize yourself in advance with all the nuances of both the processing technology itself and the further use of the material obtained during the work.

Ax cutting

This technology is also called barking. This is the only way self made, the simplest and, at the same time, very laborious. The main task in doing the work is only the removal of the bark.

Among the advantages of this ancient method of preparing building material, we note the following characteristics:

1. The most complete preservation of natural properties due to the natural drying process.
2. Compaction of wood is excluded (which certainly occurs when cutting). Thanks to this, even in a felled state, the tree continues to “breathe” and the risk of rotting of the inside of the log is reduced due to the constant circulation of air through natural pores.
3. Excellent strength of the material, which is not reduced due to the preservation of all layers of the plant.

The disadvantages of this technology include such difficulties in the work:

Important! Despite such a long list of shortcomings, this old method the most natural processing of wood does not lose its relevance.

scraping

Another way manual processing logs, which is performed using special tool- scraper.

The principle of log processing is the sequential cutting of thin layers not only of the bark, but also of the next layer of wood - sapwood.

Important! The device of such a tool resembles a sickle in shape, only with handles on both sides. The cutting edge is made from durable brands steel and sharpened on one side.

The advantages of this method are presented in the following list:

1. Attractive appearance logs. After completion of the work, the internal texture of wood, its unique pattern and shade, is very clearly manifested.
2. Nice texture of the material. Due to the peculiarity of processing - fine cleaning, like a blade, the entire surface of the log after such preparation is very smooth.
3. Almost complete preservation of all natural qualities. strength and healing properties remain the same as before processing due to the fact that only the top layer is removed.

This method is not without its drawbacks:

1. A very time-consuming process that requires strength and skills. If the rules of technology are not followed, the quality of the material obtained will significantly decrease.
2. The duration of the work.
3. Does not provide removal of irregularities, which leads to the necessary sealing of gaps after the assembly of the house.
4. Long shrinkage due to the preservation of the natural shape of the trunk.

Processing logs with a planer

The most popular method today, which gives whole line benefits.

In the process of performing all the work, the bark is removed, the irregularities of the trunk are removed, but as a result, the entire removed layer of the tree is not very thick. For this purpose, they are mainly used electrical models, significantly speeding up the process with little effort.

Advantages of this method:

1. Preservation of the natural hardness and density of wood.
2. Profitability.
3. Ease of processing.
4. The speed of all preparatory work.
5. Attractive appearance, similar to rounded logs.
6. Flat and smooth surface along the entire length.
7. Ease and speed of assembly at home.
8. Tight fit of all structural elements.
9. Less shrinkage than with the technologies described above
10. Possibility of designing both houses of simple architecture and complex projects with non-standard forms.

It is quite difficult to single out the disadvantages when preferring an electric planer to form a log for building a house and, in principle, they are relative:

Important! Considering the noted nuances of this method, we can safely say that preparing logs for building your own log house using an electric planer is the best option.

Milling

Processing a felled trunk on a milling machine results in the rounded log so popular today.

The barrel is completely passed along the entire length through the cutters of the selected profile. When preparing lumber of this type, a significant part of the wood, bark and all upper layer, down to the core.

An important condition in this case is the recommended impregnation with protective agents to prevent rapid destruction. home distinguishing feature this method - all logs prepared on a machine of this type have the same diameter. The resulting blanks are logs with mathematically precisely adjusted parameters.

The advantages of this method include the following characteristics:

Important! Separately, we note the possibility of creating any complex curly profile with properly selected cutters.

The disadvantages of this method include the following results:

Important! Despite the complexity and exclusively technical side of the processing of rounded logs, the material obtained in the process of such preparation is quite affordable. This position allows you not to bother yourself long work felling and registration of blanks manually, and purchase finished material right size with high performance.

Watch the video, which clearly shows the entire sequential process of rounded logs.

Protective wood treatment

The ease of ignition of natural wood in the vicinity of an open fire and its susceptibility to absorbing excessive moisture contribute not only to deformation of the shape of the log, but also to its complete destruction. Moreover, it is difficult naturally to exclude the attacks of harmful insects that destroy the material. Therefore, it is recommended to treat the log with an antiseptic before use, which reduces the destructive effect of such factors.

All means to increase the protective properties natural wood differ in the principle of operation, the composition of the components and the more suitable stage of construction for application. The range of such products is quite diverse - these are gels, and bulk substances, and pastes, and all kinds of concentrated and dry mixtures for preparing solutions.

The increase in strength characteristics occurs as follows:

• deep penetration of the solution into the thickness of the wood;
• the formation of an outer protective layer.

According to the type of composition, the following groups of solutions are distinguished:

Watch a video showing examples of wood treatment with protective agents and the result of their action.

Finished log processing

All work on the design of the log house is not limited to the preparation of logs and their assembly. After 1-2 years, after the final shrinkage of the building occurs, processing of a log house is required. The most demanded technology for the process of updating and final cleaning of the surface of logs is grinding.

The processing of logs is carried out exclusively with the help of such tools:

Conclusion

Despite the apparent ease of wood processing processes, especially those technologies that use high-end automated equipment, we must not forget about the need for accurate design and safety when performing any construction works. Log processing is no exception in this regard. Properly chosen processing technology, made in strict adherence to all standards, will provide a result that meets expectations and the built house will delight owners with unique comfort and practicality.

Is it necessary to protect the bath with an antiseptic?
Wood is one of the most common materials in the construction of baths. However, under the influence of negative external factors, it not only loses its original appearance, but is also affected by fungus and various tree insects. Favorable conditions for the growth of the fungus creates high humidity, condensation, temperature changes.
Treatment of the bath with an antiseptic is an indispensable condition for its durability. Many residents wooden houses or the owners of baths are faced with the problem of how to properly protect the tree from which they are made with antiseptics.
To do this, you need to read the instructions written on the packages of these products. In addition, sellers in stores will always help you and tell you for what purpose this or that antiseptic is needed.
To begin with, you need to understand that some products are suitable for processing outside, on the street, where there is exposure to the sun, rain, wind, dust, birds. And others - for processing inside, where the walls are exposed to hot or cold water. Constant humidity and high temperatures quickly destroy the tree.

Log baths are always natural and beautiful, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally friendly, and also warm. For their construction, of course, logs are needed, which must be able to be processed correctly so that your bathhouse stands as long as possible. Our article will tell you how to process bath logs.

Prepared wood is subjected to two mandatory operations: debarking and sharpening. Debarking is the removal of bark from a log, it is usually done without any mechanized tool, by hand, but only on condition that the amount of work is small. Just peel off the top dark bark until you reach the light wood. When you debark, you will notice that there are not very large, but noticeable areas of bast left on the log, or the so-called “underbark” (a fresh layer of tree bark that is separated from the trunk itself). This layer darkens as it dries, and the wood usually becomes variegated in color, so characteristic of unplaned logs. If, during debarking, the fibrous composition (fibrous structure) of the tree is not damaged, but the bast is subject to rotting, it is because of this that it is necessary that the log must go to the fence.
Remove the underbark with an electric planer (about 0.5-1 cm). Guide the tool along the length of the log. Try to remove an even layer the first time, otherwise the wood will have technical creases. This will not affect the quality of the building material, but over time it will manifest itself in the unaesthetic appearance of the logs - the creases will darken even if you cover them with an antiseptic and special impregnation. The result of correctly performed actions will be a beautiful, natural golden hue log, completely peeled of the bast.

Dry the logs. This can be done in natural conditions (but taking into account the climatic conditions of the country - as a rule, few people decide to do this) or use heat chambers where the tree is kept for up to 5 days. An incompletely dried tree will crack along the length over time, so do not neglect this way of protecting your future bath.

Wood, especially treated wood, is susceptible to the action of mold fungi, insects (for example, bark beetles), as well as to the action of various natural factors. You have the right to decide what terms of life to assign to your bath, treating the logs with chemical protective agents. Use modern antiseptics, insect repellents and wood-staining fungus (in the event that you are going to paint the bath).

Undoubtedly, traditional technology manual felling has proven itself with the best side: in almost any settlement you can find wooden houses that are fifty, seventy, or even a hundred years old. But please note that these perfectly preserved buildings were not built by modern woodcutters, but by old masters - completely different people of a different mentality from a completely different time. How long a house made by a team of modern craftsmen-shabashniki will stand - no one knows; no one can predict how its walls will look in three to five years.

Turning to the team of craftsmen, be sure to carefully consider those log cabins that the team is currently working on and turn your

close attention to the following:

gaps between the crowns; the cleanliness of the processing of cups and interveinal grooves; the absence of a large variation in the diameters of the logs of one log house; the number of potentially problematic logs in the assembled log cabins (crooked, significant radial cracks); the attitude of craftsmen-cutters to their product (an abundance of dirt on logs is not just a consequence of carelessness, it is evidence that workers will easily assemble your log house from half-rotten, crooked logs).

Modern technologies, as a result of their implementation, have a significant weakening of the dependence of the quality of the final result on the skill of workers. In the case of mechanized processing, the quality is more dependent on the well-established production and technological capabilities of the equipment.

Therefore, an individual developer, turning to a woodworking shop, should first of all pay attention to:

the presence of mechanization in the performance of the entire cycle of work; feedback on already completed orders from previous customers; availability and accessibility of a sorted raw material base; terms of production of log cabins (a long production time must necessarily alert the customer, because it is the result of obvious or hidden problems in technological process); technological capabilities of the equipment - ask, for example, whether it is possible to round logs along the generatrix of the cone ("carrot"); age and technical condition production base (old and exhausted machines are unlikely to lead to a quality result).

Methods of harvesting wood for the construction of a house or a bath.

When harvesting wood, the trunk of a sawn tree is cut into equal segments of approximately 6 meters in length. The thickest log, the butt, is called the "first cut". The next section of the trunk is the second cut. And so on. It is noteworthy that the closer the cut is to the top of the trunk, the stronger the taper of the log is observed. The first cut is practically a cylinder.
The structure of wood is heterogeneous along the radius of the trunk. The densest layer is the outer outer layer 1-2 cm thick, located directly under the bark. If this layer is damaged, when external environment begins to contact the surface of the inner layers of wood, the log becomes prone to decay and subsequent destruction.

There are differences in wood different breeds. So, spruce wood is richly and evenly saturated with resin from the very early age tree; pine wood is sufficiently saturated with resin only in adulthood. Moreover, it is predominantly the outer layers that are saturated. Therefore, when using logs of small diameter (up to 26 cm), it is more reasonable to use spruce, as it is more durable, because. pine at the age when the first cut does not exceed 26 cm in diameter is not yet sufficiently impregnated with resins and, accordingly, is less durable.

On the other hand, the abundant saturation of mature pine wood with resins can do a poor job in rooms such as saunas or baths. from heat and high humidity wood begins to "cry", losing resinous substances and soiling the surface of the log. In the case of using pine wood for hot visits, it is considered mandatory to inner lining clapboard, for spruce log cabins this operation is redundant.

One of the main disadvantages of rounded logs is precisely the short service life due to susceptibility to decay: the removed dense layer exposes the inner surface of the log, which is easily subject to destructive processes. However, when using logs of the first cut, this accusation has no grounds: the original log is an almost perfect cylinder, and by peeling off the bark layer and a few millimeters of the underlying layer, the cylinder machine does not at all turn the log into a "short-lived beautiful toy".

Chopped or rounded house - which is better and why?

As illustrations of the traditional process, we use photographs that we were kindly allowed to take at the work site of a team of masters-cutters of wooden baths.

The opponent of classical technology is the mechanized processing workshop. A self-made rounding machine allows you to process logs up to 10 meters long and up to 60 cm in diameter. Carrot rounding is possible.

Manual felling is cheaper, so a hand-cut log cabin is more profitable than a log cabin
In our particular case, a team of craftsmen estimates their work at 5,000 rubles per cubic meter of treated wood. Log cabins from the mechanized woodworking shop will cost the buyer 5,500 rubles per cubic meter plus free shipping within a radius of 50 km from the workshop.

A team of craftsmen consists of 8 people: 2 planers clean the log from the bark, 2 planers cylinder the log with electric planes, 2 cup-makers cut down the cups, 2 auxiliary workers are on the hook. Such a team adds an average of 2-4 logs to the log house per shift. A log cabin of 12 crowns of a five-wall bath will be ready no earlier than a month.

In a mechanized workshop, a team of 4 people will assemble such a log house in less than a week.

Whether your lost time is worth the illusory gain of 5% of the final cost is up to you to decide.

In traditional felling, the manual adjustment of each log will eventually lead to a warmer log house.

Perhaps this position is true, but only in the case when a house or a bathhouse is cut down for themselves. A team of craftsmen to order is forced to use each harvested log, as a result, crooked, inconsistent, and other defective logs get into the log house.

A warped log laid in a frame leads to deformation of the entire wall, in addition, its behavior in the future, when the dried logs lose 5-8% in diameter, is absolutely unpredictable: huge cracks can form, an initially warped log will most likely warp even more and deforms the entire frame.

The inconsistency does not allow you to accurately and equally cut grooves and cups. The ideal cup is cut to half the diameter of the stacked log. And what kind of ideal cup can we talk about if a log with a diameter of 40 cm fits on a log with a diameter of 20 centimeters? Indeed, in this case, the "ideal cup" will simply cut the lower crown in half.

And in general, what kind of accuracy are we talking about if you can easily stick your finger into the holes between the crowns? No matter how happy the developer who bought a cheap similar traditional log house, did not push the insulation there - all the same, the wind will walk through the walls of such a log house.

In the workshop of mechanized processing, the listed problems simply do not arise:

There is no discord, because logs are initially sorted by diameter, exactly 28 cm blanks are placed in the ordered log house from 28 cm logs - loading a forty-centimeter log into the machine to get a 28-cm blank is not profitable for the manufacturer himself. Curved logs are rejected initially - they simply cannot be rounded: the beats of such a workpiece will break the machine. Mezhventsovye grooves are also selected on the machine, their depth is calculated based on the diameter of the logs. Therefore, there are simply no fluctuations in this parameter in log cabins made of logs. And if there is, this marriage is clearly evident even to an inexperienced buyer.

Features in the use of a log house in construction.

It is customary to assemble a log house from winter-cut logs that have not been dried. In the process of wood drying, the log loses 5-5% of its diameter. Uneven drying results in radial cracks, often splitting the log in half. Classical technology in no way protects the log house from such destruction.

The figure shows how radial cracks appear on the logs of the assembled log house already in the process of control assembly due to uneven shrinkage of the tree.

In rounded logs, a special compensation groove is cut to protect the log from radial splitting from uneven shrinkage. It is cut from the side of the log opposite the cup to the depth of the radius.

In no case should the compensation groove be visible from the street and not come into contact with the external environment - usually the surface of the groove is covered with sponges of the interventional groove.

Although the expansion slot cannot withstand the radial cracking of logs, it reliably protects the log from splitting in half.

Another, most often recalled sin of log cabins from rounded logs is the destruction of a dense subcortical layer in the process of rounding, which is resistant to decay and infection by mold and fungus.

But, as mentioned above, these accusations make sense only in relation to logs from young pines of small (up to 24..26 cm) diameter: logs of larger diameter are carefully sorted, moreover, their resin content is more than enough to resist any infection. .

Moreover, the woodworking equipment of a modern mechanized shop allows rounding logs "under the carrot", i.e. maintain the taper of the original workpiece. This technological complication satisfies the requirements of the most whimsical customer and allows building log cabins from logs of both small and very large diameters, guaranteeing their long service life, high build quality that does not change over time, and protection of wood from pathogenic infections.

Grinding is a mandatory operation that is performed inside and outside the house after the end of the shrinkage processes occurring in wooden structure after construction. Sanding removes from logs various defects, removes blue, levels the surface. The sanded wood must be subjected to further processing in a short time, otherwise the surface will be covered with a dark coating, which can only be removed by repeated sanding. The processing of the log house inside the house after grinding is carried out with special antiseptic preparations that perform protective functions and protect wood from adverse factors of natural and biological origin. From the article you will learn about how to process a log house after grinding.

During grinding, bark residues, knots and irregularities are removed from the logs, thus the outer layer of wood is completely removed. After the surface is polished, the logs are left without protection and without proper processing are exposed to various adverse effects.

The external walls of the house are negatively affected external factors. As a result of high humidity, mold, fungus and microorganisms may appear on unprotected logs. Under the influence of ultraviolet radiation, the tree may turn yellow. When wood overheats or freezes due to constant change temperature regime surface may crack.

Internal walls wooden house are in more favorable conditions, but, nevertheless, also need protection. The fungus that causes blue wood can also settle on the surface of the logs due to abuse. It is especially important to protect wooden surfaces rooms where high humidity is constantly present: bathroom, bath, sauna.

Please note that the processing of the log house after grinding from the outside and from the inside of the house should be carried out no later than seven days. Otherwise, a dark coating will reappear on the surface.

Means for protecting a wooden house

For protective treatment At home, after grinding, several groups of drugs are used:

• antiseptics;
• flame retardants;
• compositions for complex purposes;
• bleaching agents.

Provide protection of wood from biological damage, which include mold, different kinds fungi, microorganisms and insects.

Antiseptics are presented in two forms:

1. Impregnation. Characterized by high absorbency. They penetrate deep into the wood fibers for several centimeters, protecting the tree from biodefeats, and also destroy mold foci that have already appeared, colonies of fungi and microorganisms.
2. Covering agents. Created on the surface protective layer which does not allow moisture to enter the wood. These preparations are especially relevant for wet rooms.

According to the duration of action, antiseptics are divided into the following groups:

1. Easily washable. The composition of these products includes metal salts, which are quickly washed off under the influence of water and humidity. These drugs are best covered wooden house from within. However, these products are not suitable for baths, saunas and bathrooms.
2. Difficult to wash. These preparations contain natural and artificial oils, they are resistant to moisture and other atmospheric phenomena. Therefore, if the question is how to cover the log house from the outside after grinding, then it is best to use hard-to-wash compounds for external processing.
3. Short term action. Such antiseptic impregnations quickly absorbed into the wood and well tolerated high humidity And high temperatures. They protect the tree not only from mold, but also from insects. Great for baths and saunas.

Antiseptics are glazing and covering. The former create a transparent layer that completely preserves the natural pattern of wood. The latter form a tinted coating with a matte or glossy sheen.

Wood is very susceptible to fire, it ignites very quickly and burns well. To protect a wooden house from fire, it is necessary to cover the log house by special means- flame retardants. This group of drugs is designed to protect wood from fire.

Flame retardants prevent ignition and allow the wood to for a long time withstand exposure to open flame without catching fire.

There are two types of compositions:

1. Products containing sodium salts. When exposed to fire on wood treated with such a composition, gases are released that prevent ignition.
2. Non-salt preparations. The flame is blocked by the foam that forms on the wood when exposed to fire.

Complex means

The drugs in this group are universal. They protect the wood from different types adverse impacts. Means prevent the penetration of moisture, protect the surface from fungus, mold and insects, and also prevent ignition.

Blueing of logs is a very common occurrence. The reason for the formation of blue is a special fungus that settles in untreated wood. It is not always possible to get rid of blue spots with the help of.

No matter how well the wood is polished, the spores of the fungus still remain and, under favorable conditions, will again multiply intensively. To completely destroy the fungus, wood is treated with special ones.

All bleaches are divided into two large groups:

1. chlorine compounds. The main active ingredient in them is chlorine. With chlorine-based products, it is better to treat the log house from the outside.
2. Products that do not contain chlorine. active ingredient they contain hydrogen peroxide, ammonia, alkali, oxalic acid. Chlorine-free preparations are suitable for processing timber inside the house.

The principle of operation of all products is to oxidize the surface, which leads to discoloration of the pigment and the destruction of fungal spores.

Before processing log walls with protective equipment, it is necessary to remove from the surface with a vacuum cleaner all the dust and chips formed during grinding, and then wipe the wood with a rag.

Temperature environment during processing should not be lower than plus five degrees at a humidity of about 80%.

Impregnations are applied in the following sequence: antiseptic, bleaching compound, fire-fighting agent.

Antiseptic and fire retardant impregnation is applied in two layers. Each new layer is applied after the previous one has completely dried, after about 24 hours. After using bleach, the surface is washed with water.

Now buildings made of logs processed on rounding machines are very popular. But any master will say that wood is a very capricious material. It is afraid of water, but at the same time it is impossible to seal its pores and prevent "breathing".

Unpolished round logs

Wood is susceptible to fungus, mold, woodworms, belongs to the group of highly combustible materials, sometimes the logs of an already built log house can “twist”, they bend, crack. How to deal with these problems, we will tell in this article.

What is round log

There are 2 subspecies of rounded logs:

The downside is that under the influence of precipitation and sunlight, the log darkens over time, but not completely, but only a few centimeters deep. Serve at home or baths from such trunks will be a long time.

Most often as source material coniferous species of wood - pine, spruce, cedar - are used for cylindering. A log ready for use is obtained after the following processing steps:

The resulting rounded log is used for the construction of low-rise buildings, baths, cottages, verandas, bars and other commercial, household and residential buildings.

Means for processing

Various means for processing a log house from rounded logs

The instructions for the formulations always indicate the period when you can and cannot use the drug.

So, the processing of rounded logs with transport antiseptics begins immediately after the completion of the profiling and trimming processes. The application of other compositions - only after assembling the log house into a single structure and sealing the seams.

Steps for processing and applying protective equipment

Any means of protection are applied to wood with a moisture content of not more than 25%. The level is measured with a special device - a moisture meter (contact or non-contact).

To process a log house from rounded logs, the following tools and assemblies are required:

Grinding is done using a special nozzle

All this is useful for processing the house with your own hands. And in production conditions, another method is used - autoclaving. With the help of a special autoclave apparatus, the logs are treated with antiseptic and flame retardant compounds. For a log house from such blanks, mold and open fire will not be terrible for more than 10 years.

The inconvenience of this method is that sometimes the logs need to be adjusted and cut off the excess, the files. This removes the protected layer, that is, the impregnation will need to be restored.

Before starting work, you need to prepare:

The total processing of the log cabin from rounded logs begins only after full cycle drying, that is, at least a year after the construction of the house under a temporary roof. This is due to the fact that excess moisture in the building material makes it difficult for the composition to penetrate, and the effectiveness of its use is minimized.

Important! While the tree is damp, shrinkage of the house will occur constantly, cracks, dents, bumps may appear on perfectly even trunks, which subsequently need to be polished and sealed with special sealants or compounds based on epoxy, acrylic, silicone.

Finished log cabin corner

Problems of rounded logs and how to deal with them

1. On finished log house cracks appeared.

During the drying of the log, cracks may appear on it. As a rule, masters prefer not to touch them until the last, since it is through them that the largest number moisture. After general processing log house defects are filled with a mixture of sawdust + epoxy resin or special sealants (Perma-Chink, REMMERS Acryl-100).

rounded log, construction material, has a lot of advantages, but it is not without some disadvantages. Knowing about them and understanding what wood processing needs to be done, you can ensure that the log house can stand safe and sound for several hundred years.

Factors against which the log must be protected

The natural origin of the log and the method of processing its surface formed the following disadvantages:

The chemical industry has already responded to all these challenges by developing special products for treating logs. By choosing the necessary moisture-proof, fire-retardant and bioprotective compounds and following the algorithm for processing a log house or each log, you can minimize all of the above risks.

The use of universal means that can protect against several potential dangers at once is not welcomed by professionals. Like everything universal, such compositions have minimal performance indicators in solving each highly specialized task.

Rules for processing walls made of rounded logs with protective compounds

Before the protective agents are applied to the surface of the logs, you need to wait until the natural moisture is completely removed from the wood. A dried tree better perceives protective natural or chemicals, allowing you to achieve greater efficiency from their application.

If the house is recently assembled, then the surface of the walls does not need to be sanded before applying protective agents. If it is necessary to process the walls that have already stood for some time, then it will be necessary to remove the roughness on the surface of the logs and traces of mold, decay or pollution by grinding. Then the ends are treated with a vaporizing antiseptic and oil paint or slaked lime mixed with a solution of manganese.

Funds are applied to the rounded log in the following sequence:

1. Antiseptic.
2. Moisture protective composition.
3. Flame retardant.

This sequence was not chosen by chance. Mold and moisture can come from inside the wood, so you need the deepest possible impregnation with special means to create a barrier. Ignition most often starts from contact with the outer part of the log, so it is important to protect the surface here.

Other compositions that can be used to treat log walls

Doubts about decorating (and protecting) rounded logs with paint have many specialists in modern housing construction. Hiding the natural beauty of the wood texture under a polymer film would be unwise.

Therefore, for those who want to maintain the smoothness and flawlessness of the treated surface of the logs, varnishes or glazing compounds are intended. Varnish (especially if it is frost-resistant) can also be considered protection, because it is a barrier against ultraviolet radiation and pollution.

Sometimes, after treatment with an antiseptic, moisture protection and fire retardant, a preservative layer is also applied. It is designed to extend the effect of these protective measures for as long as possible.

A processed house will last for several centuries

If you want to live in a house that will retain its appearance and functionality for a long time, then you should contact the builders who process the log properly. Digging Eco-Tech pays serious attention to the issue of treating walls with protective compounds.

When building a house from cylindering, all logs must pass necessary processing protective compounds.

It is troublesome to handle logs yourself, besides skills, you need special brushes, spatulas and spray guns and knowledge of the algorithm for applying funds. It would be wiser to order the construction of a house with the obligatory processing of logs.