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What do other members who live on a sometimes ferocious ocean front use to protect the wood on the house?
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With one exception, members of the London Lounge have more sense than to live on the beach!
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storeynicholas wrote:What do other members who live on a sometimes ferocious ocean front use to protect the wood on the house?
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Servants?

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storeynicholas wrote:What do other members who live on a sometimes ferocious ocean front use to protect the wood on the house?
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Servants?

In theory - but they just won't do it. One girl is supposed to do just the wood outside and in - all the in gets done every week and out does not!! can't keep on about it there's just a block there!! So - I end up doing it myself after dark at weekends. Once I did it in the day and the maids next door came out and stared at me - not in merriment (although that might have come later) but in astonishment. Anyway I am looking for a preparation which will last more than a week - there is an oil but it does not last long. They used to put lard on the keels of the old sailing ships but I am not sure that I'd go that far.
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The lobster fisherman I know in Nova Scotia use (or used to use) creosote, although I understand that some governments have banned it or put restrictive conditions on its use.

Still, if its good enough for them...

Cheers,
garu

Creosote causes cancer (which kind, I do not know). The railway here (SNCF) has to treat redundant ties (which are creosoted) before selling them to the public, for use in gardens for instance.

Would a shipchandler have anything to recommend?

Frog in Suit

OK, so much for creosote...

My younger sister now lives in the US, in Texas, close to the Gulf of Mexico coast, and she swears by a product called "Thompson's Water Seal" (although I somewhat doubt that she has actually *used* it, as opposed to simply enjoying its benefits). I don't know what a chandler would recommend today, but when I lived along the North Yorkshire coast (a stretch of coastline that is constantly beaten by the North Sea winds) it was common for people to seal wood (houses or boats) with tar (wood tar).

Modern or traditional...take your pick!

ganbatte!
garu

NJS -
Creosote - now that brings back memories of the smell of fresh creosote on fences in the sun - wonderful smell - however, yet another perilous pleasure, it seems. The Thompson's Water Seal sounds worth investigating. The thing here is that the wood is hardwood and the product that I'm after is simply to make the watre run off it as the salt sea wind (locally called marazia) blackens the wood but it will not harm it as it might softwoods - so I don't actually need tar or creosote.
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