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I’m back for more please, but this time its the Barge Boards.
I am embarking on the second attempt at painting the external woodwork on this Forth Bridge of a house and hope that with your help I can produce a better and more durable job. Our first attempt at simply using F&B paint on dried out pitch pine that hadn’t seen any paint for a long time, has perhaps not surprisingly failed miserably. Not only is the paint failing, but I am now concerned that the ingress of water into the cracked paintwork is potentially more destructive than before when there was virtually no paint, as the sound areas of wood are sealed with a layer of paint and perhaps prevent the water from escaping? We have now changed to using linseed oil paint and I must say how much of pleasure it is to use.
I am hopeful that the oiling and re-painting will rejuvenate the wood. However, some badly weathered parts of the barge boards will also require strengthening or pinning back together where the grain has opened or split apart.
Some pinning using steel nails has been done in the past, where the boards have completely split apart. The filler that had been used to make good the broken joint has since fallen out, leaving an open crack and a very weak joint. I am thinking that I will try to carefully remove the nails or if this is too destructive, I will try to cut through the nails along the open joint, grind them back and then drill and re-fix using brass screws? Any advice on what glues or fillers I should use in the joint? I have the putty and luslack that comes with the linseed oil paint, but I would prefer to use something that would perhaps form a stronger structural bond. The same goes for the areas of boards where cracks are forming and the board is weak and can be flexed laterally by hand - should I be using anything stronger than putty?
I am praying that next time it will just be a coat of oil!
I am embarking on the second attempt at painting the external woodwork on this Forth Bridge of a house and hope that with your help I can produce a better and more durable job. Our first attempt at simply using F&B paint on dried out pitch pine that hadn’t seen any paint for a long time, has perhaps not surprisingly failed miserably. Not only is the paint failing, but I am now concerned that the ingress of water into the cracked paintwork is potentially more destructive than before when there was virtually no paint, as the sound areas of wood are sealed with a layer of paint and perhaps prevent the water from escaping? We have now changed to using linseed oil paint and I must say how much of pleasure it is to use.
I am hopeful that the oiling and re-painting will rejuvenate the wood. However, some badly weathered parts of the barge boards will also require strengthening or pinning back together where the grain has opened or split apart.
Some pinning using steel nails has been done in the past, where the boards have completely split apart. The filler that had been used to make good the broken joint has since fallen out, leaving an open crack and a very weak joint. I am thinking that I will try to carefully remove the nails or if this is too destructive, I will try to cut through the nails along the open joint, grind them back and then drill and re-fix using brass screws? Any advice on what glues or fillers I should use in the joint? I have the putty and luslack that comes with the linseed oil paint, but I would prefer to use something that would perhaps form a stronger structural bond. The same goes for the areas of boards where cracks are forming and the board is weak and can be flexed laterally by hand - should I be using anything stronger than putty?
I am praying that next time it will just be a coat of oil!
