Paraffinic Products
Solvent C12: A Heavy Aromatic Solvent for your Business CHOICE OF WOOD SEALANT Contractors always ask us to recommend a sealer for them based on our experiences. This has become a challenge for us in a way, because there are more sealers available than ever before. Years ago we tried every sealer available, but with widespread reformulating we saw in recent years and all the new products to appear have been difficult to keep up with all the changes. The complications of reformulating any product are obvious, and some sealers changed formulation several times during this short period. Sealants are made from a number of different databases with a variety of chemicals added. Some adders make the sealer perform better (application, bonding, flow, penetration, etc.) Other ingredients simply add bulk to help hold the "cost per gallon" down. For example, why the addition of mineral spirits for oil sealer have? Well, that dilutes the product to make it easier to spread and it helps carry the sealer into the wood. The fact that mineral spirits have a very low cost also enables a manufacturer to reduce the selling price of your product just by adding more mineral spirits! Of course, the EPA has forced this practice to stop, so some manufacturers are really making sealants leaving cover (because they can not compete). In any discussion of sealers, it should be understood from the outset that there is no perfect product. The most universal product I have used is Ready Seal, which has been used in everything from log cabins to docks successfully. Unfortunately this product is used more often by contractors than home owners and there are very few resources online that can be purchased. Just search for ready seal deck sealer online and Compare this product yourself, it is definitely worth the time. OIL SEALS Oil seals may contain any of various types of oil. Oil sealers may be coatings or penetrants or some blend of both. Pure coatings sit on top of the wood. Pure penetrating sit on and below the surface of the wood. A sealer that leaves any kind of surface layer in the wood is considered a coating, if you are a minor (ie 10% coating, 90% penetrant) or complete coverage (100%). Any product that contains linseed oil is a film-forming product (coating) to some degree. Ready seal is made of 100% paraffinic oil (a derivative of crude oil) and therefore is a completely penetrating. In general, the coatings hide surface defects or faults in the wash. The closer they are to being solid color stains, the more they are able to hide the flaws. They can be subject to wear in traffic areas visible too. Coatings should be stripped before applying a new layer because they will not allow new layers to penetrate into the wood and bond to it. Most coatings require careful application, since defects such as
drips and runs appear in the final paper. In other words, you (or your employees) must have the skills to apply any coating in a way that will look good when new and as it ages the painting wood. Coatings may flake and peel over time if humidity is trapped in the wood.
Broadly, penetrating hide no surface defects, such as poor cleaning work or stains. Penetrants do not show traffic pattern wear. I usually do not have to be stripped to recoat down the road, either, because the new sealer penetrates through the old coat and bonds directly to the wood. Full pervasive applications are fully forgiving, which means that drips or lap marks will not show. In other words, less skill is required to apply a penetrating product. Fully penetrating products are not created to be tough like coatings, so they strip relatively easily when you need to remove them. WATER BASED SEALANTS Water-based finishes are becoming increasingly popular as more and more homeowners try to do their own work. These products are sold in department stores with slogans such as "clean with soap and water" - words that are very attractive to the do-it-yourselfer. Latex and acrylic finishes up most of these alternatives. Products are water based film-forming finishing. Products and water based acrylics are very difficult to keep and work with. The inner workings of SEALANTS Permeability sealants are supposed permeable, which means that allow the wood to "breathe". This means that the normal moisture can get in and out of the timber during the normal cycle of the day, but the rain drops, as he cannot enter the wood. The more pigment the product contains, the less permeable the sealer is. Quality sealant will sap permeable to exit the timber without damaging the seal as it passes through, for example. Paints are not permeable, so painted covers crack and peel sharply after a short period of time. Ever notice what happens to latex paint on a window sill? The moisture in the wood tries to escape when the sun hits the wood and raises the temperature. Since this moisture cannot pass through the paint, the only result is that the moisture naturally pushes the paint off the surface of the timber to escape. That is why paint cracks and peels. This occurs most often result in window frames (horizontal board) rather than in the vertical cutting window, because the upper end of a vertical plate is generally not painted (allowing moisture to escape.) That's why I never paint a wood deck. VOC: For many years, manufacturers threw terms like "percentage of solids" as a selling point for their products. In simple terms, this refers to the amount of product remaining in the timber after all that has been evaporated. What evaporates is called "volatiles" or "volatile organic compounds". The EPA has been tightening regulations on volatile organic compounds for years because they harm air quality and the ozone layer. Many hunters have had to reformulate once (or several times) to meet these changing regulations. Each time a manufacturer reformulates the product characteristics change.
VOCs are often simple mineral spirits or turpentine. NOTE: "High solids" does not mean that the product is thick. Ready Seal has the highest solids of any oil sealer we know of (87) and is also one of the finest oils have to work. Just does not contain a large amount of volatile organic compounds. Sometimes sealants manufacturing byproducts contain manufacturers want to have, such as benzene. A careful examination of the MSDS will reveal a lot to you. Pigment: pigment is ground finely powdered inert, light that is used to create a color in its sealant. Most of these particles sealants are iron oxides. In sealants is the iron oxide pigment which gives UV protection. A UV ray from the sun reflects off the wood of these minute iron particles of color before they can penetrate into the wood and turn it gray. Over time, the sun use up the oxide particles, and wood starts to gray again. Clear sealers, in spite of many label claims, do not actually prevent gray because they contain pigments. If you have a customer calls for a clear stain, educate them about this. I always repeated his statement back to them but changed the word "clear" to the word "natural". Once I got to say the word "natural" simply asked them if they wanted Natural Cedar or Natural Redwood color. Life: Most sealers are designed to last about two years on the horizontal surfaces and four years on vertical surfaces. Some say more, some make no claims at all. Customers often ask about the life of the product you suggested, and it is important that you know the answer to that question is "It depends ..." The life depends on the sealer, the location of the deck, the condition of the wood, the local weather conditions, the use of the deck, etc. Remember that hunters are not guaranteed to "look good" for any amount of time. They are only guaranteed to repel water for a period of time. Manufacturers are notorious for not standing behind their products. They simply blame a poor application by the contractor and leave you in the lurch. Some manufacturers sell "lifetime" or finished "25 Years". These products are mostly water-based silicone. Silicone is excellent water repellant, and lasts a long time. Can never be completely removed from the timber below, so that the selection of one of these products is a permanent decision. The drawback of these products is UV protection, which often fails within a few years of the initial application. Once the wood starts to turn gray, the nightmare begins. If you cannot remove the product out, how you get to the wood to clean it and add more UV protection? There is no answer. CONCLUSION Part of their choice welding units must include factors like packaging, manufacturer support, after sales service, availability, exclusivity, colors, etc. The two most important factors for us in recent years were: 1) satisfaction client, and 2) to facilitate the training of new employees for success in their own using the sealer.
Ready Seal enabled us to teach proper sealing techniques and send new employees on their own with just 2-3 weeks of working with a lead person. The training time saved and the repeat business that was generated with Ready Seal made our choice of sealer to use pretty easy. Consider some other important factors when thinking about choosing a sealer. Ready Seal has no temperature limitations for application, which is a great benefit to the contractors. This means that you can use to seal decks and fences even when the temperature drops down into the 40s or less! This feature alone can add a few months to yearly cleaning and sealing "season". The only thing that limits the use of Ready Seal on wood is the moisture content of the wood. You do not have to wait because there is an electrical storm expected later that day, either. It can rain in just 15 minutes after applying Ready Seal without damaging the look and protection. That adds a lot of extra days back into your work schedule, too! Other sealers have their benefits and may be easier to get at a local store, but Ready Seal can change your business in a way that no other product has been tested could.
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