Pine Tar Siding

Highly recommend wearing vinyl or rubber gloves when working with it.

Pine tar siding.

Pine tar is made from burning the pine resin out of the stumps of pine trees. The primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar. Black pine tar on exterior barn siding. Pine tar is also used to treat some skin diseases such as rosacea eczema and psoriasis.

I would say it took about 2 months before it fully cured. Set the meter for the appropriate species of wood being tested. Perform a moisture test on the siding using a moisture meter to measure the percentage of water in the pine. It is available in a light and a dark finish as well as pigmented.

The main ingredient is pine tar or pine oil and this must make up at least 20 percent of the soap for it to be authentic. The pine tar is a bit messy to install as well particularly the black as it had not fully cured when they were installing it. Authentic pine tar application suggestions. After doing a bit of research on it i discovered it has no preservative properties other than water repellency and was scheduled to be removed from the eu markets as a preservative having no biocidal or mildewcidal algicidal.

Different pine tar soaps contain different things. Wooden decks shingles wood siding. Above grade we recommend mixing the pine tar 50 50 with allback purified raw linseed oil and applying. Pine siding stephen thanks for your comments.

By itself if manufactured properly pine tar poses no health risks. In this state pine tar has the consistency of molasses and can be used for preserving wood even below grade. I originally purchased the pine tar as an architecturally correct finish for siding on scandinavian themed homes. Pine tar is a sticky material produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions dry distillation or destructive distillation the wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container.

Pine tar consists primarily of aromatic hydrocarbons tar acids and tar bases. Pine tar is for exterior applications and creates a stain like finish. Pine tar light 0 85 gallon 3 liters made in sweden.