Newly-cut logs can have a moisture content of 80 % or more depending on species. The moisture content should balance with relative humanity it surrounding environment, and is therefore neither gaining or losing in moisture content. The higher moisture content on wood causes some effect. Abridging processing logs needs to assess moisture of wood called moisture meter. Moisture meters are used to measure the amount of water in the wood so that the woodworker can determine if it is suitable for the intended purpose.

Cracking, cupping, crowning, buckling, sunken joints, and cracked finishes are some problem because of moisture contain in wood. There are only two times that you can effectively use these products on your logs. When the home is built, before it is stained, or after cob blasting a finish off of your logs, before you re-stain. The wood preservative must be applied to raw wood, so it can soak in and dry underneath the stain.

Keeping and maintaining wood moisture contain before build wood house is become the main preventive point. The higher water contain in a wood susceptible to termite. Borates are well known across the world for their protective qualities.

Penetreat provides a protective “shell” coating which helps defend your home against dry, wet, and brown rot, as well as termites, house borers, powder post beetles, and carpenter ants. Penetreat is a borate based wood preservative. Borate’s advantage is that it acts across a spectrum of wood destroyers-from termites, anobiid beetles, lyctid beetles, and carpenter ants to brown or white rot. Another plus is that it migrates and reaches moist areas where insects or fungi are active.

The bad news is that if the wood dries out, the borate dries, and it rises to the wood’s surface where it can be washed off by rain. (It may also diffuse into the soil if there’s ground contact.) That’s why it’s important to keep the wood that you’ve treated from getting wet.

Moisture risk on wood material will be resolve by doing treatment before use and appropriate assembly method. Consider the expense of every details part of building a house effect on their durability.