Recent content by Hedi

Good Morning, After 2 years, I finally have decided to repairing it and have been painting the wood with Creocote (It is not as good as creosote, but hopefully it can still do some prevention). I now struggle with top paint, and was hoping if I could get some advise. I asked around my...

My main concern of cedral is the breathable, because the building has wooden structure inside so the house need to be breathable and I heard cedral aren't that good (correct me if i were wrong) but it is long lasting.

Hi woody, thank you for your advise, the wood have to be painted in black to maintain the conversation of the area features, so I can accept fading, my biggest concern is brittle. I don't know about the grain, but your advice is very useful, i will go to the showroom and check out the samples...

Hi Mr Chibs I am planning to use thermowood and manufactory coated in black so hopefully the paint will last a bit longer because the scaffolding renting is expensive... theromowood cost about £36 per squared meters and then extra for the coating.... expensive but hopefully it a bit last long.

That's difficult decision now, when I poke it from the bottom it feels like there is about 15% of board that need replacement. So the question is should I spend the money to replace a few rotten one and paint it all over for it to last another 10 years. Or should I replace all and then it last...

Hi All, I bought a timber cladding house which built in 1920. My neighbors and the previous owner also claim that they never need to replace any timbers, just paint over it. But then I look at tje current stage of the wall, I am not quite sure does it needs replacement to all or just a few...