Wood Whitening: Give Your House a New Life
Even those who are not involved in the construction business know that wood remains one of the most popular construction materials nowadays. Its popularity on the modern construction market is quite evident and explainable – wood is a natural material and posses a lot of positive features: durability, low weight, and, undoubtedly, positive influence on human body and warm 'living' structure. But in the same time wood is a part of environmental system and its decay is caused basically by natural, or, to be more exact, climatic conditions like UV-radiation and microorganisms and insects impact.
UV radiation: fading, loss of natural color, yellowing:
The color of wood located outdoors is changing radically and quickly. The sun rays cause photochemical reaction on the wood surface that results in wood surface deterioration and loss of natural color. Natural wood color can get grey or yellow brown hue under the influence of the sun. In warm and sunny conditions this effect can be observed in just several months.
Fungus: coloring (blue stains) and biological decay (dote, mold):
Fungus needs very little to grow. All it basically needs is some moisture. Fungus is quite resistant and can easily adapt almost to any conditions. Wood-coloring fungus give it blue-grayish color called blue stains, though in some cases brown, yellow or pink hues can also be observed. Initially blue stains do not destroy wood but change its color only. But one should remember that they create a growth medium for wood destroying fungus that finally results in wood constructions weakening.
There is a great offer of wood protecting antiseptic agents on the market. But what can be done if necessary treatment was not performed in a due time and your wood structure turned blue or grey? You can recover a natural wood color with a special compound. The offer of such compounds is considerably small One of such whitening agents offered in the Russian market is Iney ('hoarfrost') two-component whitening system, the quality of which is proved with time and 15 year experience of Rogneda Research and Production Enterprise.
Iney system is designed for recovering fresh wood natural color in wooden elements with blue stains or mold or old gray ones. The system is highly effective. It recovers natural color no matter how deep the unwanted color penetrates. Iney does not limit natural ventilation of wood, does not influence its strength, adhesive characteristics, coloring value, and provides a preliminary antiseptic treatment of wood. The system can be used indoors and outdoors, it is simple for use, fire safe and effective even in the most complicated cases. The system components are sold separately and can be used independently of each other.
Two component Iney system consists of the following compounds: compound No.1 is a water solution of chlorine bleaching and antiseptic agent; compound No.2 represents a dry powder of bleaching agent containing active oxygen. The treatment solution is received through dissolution of No. 2 compound in water. Compound No.2 strengthens No.1 compound effect, but it is strictly forbidden to mix No.1 and No.2 compounds.
The safety precautions given on the label shall be observed. Ready-to-use compounds shall be kept in plastic vessels without any contact with metal surfaces. The wood treatment shall be effected with a brush made of synthetic materials. Compound No.1 is applied to dry wood surface cleaned from mold, fungus and dirt. It is applied along wood fibers until the wood is fully saturated. The treatment with compound No.2 is recommended in 4-12 hours period after compound No.1 treatment. The treatment procedure is similar. Recommended dry up time is 12 hours. In other to prevent wood surface leaching it is recommended to wash the wood surface with water after treatment. It should be mentioned that necessary color may be not achieved within one cycle. In this case the treatment procedure shall be repeated.
With Iney whitening and protecting system your wooden house will live a new life!
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