Grinding of walls from a bar: independent work and

Wood has always a lot of advantages, but there are also negative sides that are connected with the exploitation of the material. A house of timber can gradually lose its visual appeal, the walls darken and lose the beauty of the texture, and here you need to polish the walls of the timber.

Perfect walls

As always, the choice is simple in terms of grinding - either order it or make it yourself. The first option is to guarantee quality work, and the second always guarantees it, plus it allows you to save money. Therefore, consideration of the grinding process will go from the point of view of independent work.

It is also worth considering the moments that determine the need for mechanical processing of wood.

Why do we need this work:

• Allows you to return the bar to the original fresh look, emphasizes the texture of the wood.
• Provides complete removal of mold and mildew from the surface.
• Serves as a great moment to improve the absorbency of the walls when treated with antiseptic and ground paint.
• Serves as a basis for painting and applying varnish on wood.
• Removes all defects, which gets timber during the installation of walls.

When to carry out work

Here the main question is only how to grind the timber, after complete drying and shrinkage of the log house, or almost immediately after the construction of the box.

There is no universal answer to this question.

The opinion was divided, and it is connected with simple moments:

• First, wait a few months for shrinkage at home is quite long.
• Secondly, many experts believe that if the walls and roof were erected, the basic conditions for polishing were already met.
• Thirdly, the timber for construction should initially not be completely damp, so that it does not lead.

In addition, there is a simple example of what happens when painting relatively raw and unpolished wood - all the paint goes cracked and begins to peel off. Thus, one can take the side of supporters of timely processing of wood.

The wood in the log house should be protected immediately after installation, and therefore polishing of a log house is recommended almost the next day after the installation of the roof. And after the "operation" you can give the felling normal and evenly dry.

Required Tools

In principle, all the tools that can be used refers specifically to the process of processing timber:

• It is quite often used tape manual machine for grinding. Plus, you can work with it without skills in carpentry.
• Angle grinder, well-known Bulgarian with a disk nozzle.
• Brusadrel with shlif-nozzle.

Note! Rarely, but, nevertheless, factory equipment is used, on which the entire part is fully processed at the factory. In this case, simply after installation, it will be necessary to process the defects if they occur.

At the same time most often grinding a house from a bar involves the use of two of the simplest and most common tools, it is a drill and a Bulgarian. In addition, almost every owner has these tools.

Naturally, you will need some more accessories that are difficult to attribute to the tools, rather it is equipment, without which the work will not only be difficult, but also dangerous, talking about glasses and a respirator.

Points are best to take from unbreakable plastic, and quite wide. A respirator can be any, as long as it protects the respiratory tract.

Note! Regardless of which specific tools will be used for work, the quality of the whole process depends directly on what kind of sandpaper is used. It is possible to recommend the sandpaper parameter - 80 for the end face and the serious defect of the timber, and 120 for the finishing of the walls.

Technology

First of all, it is necessary to carefully examine the frame for the presence of a radial structure in the wood. What does this mean?

The radial structure is formed in the form of a kind of "pile", which is obtained, for example, during planing. At the same time, whole wood petals begin to exfoliate from the timber.

Instructions for the detection of such a defect is quite simple, it will be necessary to treat portions of the radial structure with an adhesive solution. And it is not easy to process, but apply in several layers, richly smearing the entire area.

After the glue is applied, you need to leave it for 24 hours for complete drying. This will allow not only the radial structure to "pacify", but also to protect the adjacent wood tissue from ruffling during polishing.

Note! Besides the fact that the operation of applying the adhesive protects the wood, it also allows you to extend the life of the tool and grinding wheels.

Next comes the pile problem at the ends. You can solve it with a blowtorch. The flame burns quite well and removes the entire pile.

Moreover, the secret of this technology and the fact that under the simple influence of fire, polished timber acquires additional strength, which will affect the service life.

Be sure to pay close attention to grinding the butt. The fact is that the butt remains the weakest point in the whole log house. It is subjected to cracking, constantly getting wet, it is on the butt that most of the sunlight comes in.

Therefore, the end face should not just be polished, but polished with additional fine emery paper to keep as little pile as possible on it.

Such an attitude to the end will allow:

• Shrinkage be uniform.
• The wood slowly and evenly dry.
• Reduce paint or varnish consumption. Unpolished timber absorbs paints and varnishes in large quantities, and from this the cost of processing increases.

Basic steps and recommendations

Technology разобрана, и теперь стоит определиться с тем, как будет идти работа.

It can be broken down into the following recommendations:

• At the first stage, grinding is performed with coarse sandpaper with a fraction of 40. The upper layer of the timber is removed.
• Next, remove the pile, for this paper is used with a fraction of 100-120.
• For the ends and grooves perfectly Bulgarian, and with them you need to start a beginner to get used to the management of the tool.
• After polishing the timber with your own hands has come to an end, you must immediately remove dust from the walls, otherwise it will interfere with the normal application of paintwork materials.

Errors

It is equally important to immediately identify the main mistakes that should be avoided.

In this case, the rule will work, informed means it’s armed:

• High revolutions will leave rough marks on the timber.
• Grinding a timber without removing the resin residue from the wood surface.
• Work on the radial structure without first sticking the defect.

Conclusion

With the apparent ease of the grinding process, before grinding the timber, you also need to calculate your own strength. The fact is that often with an inexperienced hand, beginners take big grinders for work (read also the article House from a profiled bar with its own hands: the basics of construction).

Hands get tired, with a heavy grinder it is difficult to control the uniformity of grinding, and ultimately a large number of defects remain on the walls. Using a small and lightweight tool will allow you to work without these problems.

And yet, the wood always hardens over time, therefore, the longer it takes to wait and postpone polishing while doing other construction work, the more difficult it will be afterwards to carry out the processing, and it does not matter if it is polishing of a profiled bar or simple wood!

Note! Advice that you need to remember - work is carried out before installing doors and windows, and before installing a clean, final floor and ceiling.

Conclusion

Grinding will be successful, if you follow all the recommendations step by step, do not rush, and work in the right direction (see also the article Installing a House from a Bar: from foundation to painting). A video in this article will provide visual information on this topic, look!