Excerpt from The Preservation of the Exterior of Wooden Buildings Lumber and its Relation to Paints: The proper choice and treatment of lum ber is one of the most important prob lems which the builder as well as the painter has to face. When about to build a dwelling, barn, or other structure made principally of wood, the question is sure to arise in regard to what variety to se lect so as to get the maximum service and money value. The locality in which the structure is to be built must often have a bearing upon this ...
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Excerpt from The Preservation of the Exterior of Wooden Buildings Lumber and its Relation to Paints: The proper choice and treatment of lum ber is one of the most important prob lems which the builder as well as the painter has to face. When about to build a dwelling, barn, or other structure made principally of wood, the question is sure to arise in regard to what variety to se lect so as to get the maximum service and money value. The locality in which the structure is to be built must often have a bearing upon this question. While it is true that the painting of each type of wood demands the special considera tion of the painter, it is also true that _the study of paints for wood protection points toward the production of a paint that will give satisfactory results under all conditions and on all grades. It is the writers' opinion that a paint may be made that will be perfectly well suited for the preservation of every species of wood, provided the paint is properly treated in the hands of the skillful and intelligent painter, who can produce last ing results on almost every type, by varying the proportion of thinners and oil in the various coats. The painter who uses the same paint on soft pine.and again on hard pine, without making a special study of how to reduce the priming coat for the hard pi'ne, will be likely to get inferior results on the latter. In case of failure, the natural impulse is often to place the blame upon the paint, whereas the real responsibility may rest upon the painter's lack of knowledge. Signs of Paint Failure: Those who are responsible for the care and mainte nance of property are familiar with the condition of surface presented by almost all wooden buildings or structures which have been improperly painted with inie rior paints. Chalking or fiouring are terms used to describe the condition of a paint surface which has deterio rated within the paint film. The forma tion of minute fissures, generally spoken of as checking, as well as the effects best described as cracking, scaling, peel ing, and blistering, are other signs of failure which cause paint coatings to present an unsightly appearance, and which point inevitably either to the use of improperly made paints or to im proper application. The cause of these conditions is not difficult to understand when even a brief study of the character of the materials entering into the com position of a paint has been made. It. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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