Scott Brown here and today's exciting episode we talk about timber treatment in New Zealand
give this beautiful box corner here yes scrubbers completely disappeared
and the facing itself is actually a tongue-and-groove floor board you can
believe that that is the group side they're probably not the worst thing to use because
the scriber rotted and disappeared but their flooring is lasted a lot longer
anyway that's what we're doing today we're repairing little things like that corner
boxes and this here that I finished repairing earlier it's the same sort of problem that stuff
there had all rotted away so yeah that's what I've been doing now timber treatment I used
some H 1.2 to repair this hole in the wall that was here now 3.1 I said H 1.2 there's
a nice H 3.1 and what does the h stand for well let's hazard like hazard class and New
Zealand it ranges from h1 to h6 I believe is the highest all this stuff here all that window
stuff that'll be H 3.1 they're sticking H 3.2 so the H 3.2 is sort of semi structural stuff
on the outside of the building as long as it's not embedded in the ground X 3.2 is okay H 3.1
on the other hand has to be sealed once you've cut it if you look closely it's all primed and
when you cut the ends you have to prime those ends as well because the treatment is sort of
surface level I guess so I'm putting it in each 3.1 but the only difference I'm making is that
I'm keeping it up off the ground whereas they poured the concrete slab around the timber and
that's what Russia did now if you want timber to go into the ground I mean you know you trying to
void there if you can but if you have to put timber in the ground in New Zealand you have
to use either H 4 5 or 6 H 6 is like what they build like Wolf's out of you know H 5 is what
houses gone so house piles H 5 and H 4 is like fence posts landscaping timber things are there
all right nearly done with this Fox corner just go to prime this and put it on one of
the most common questions I get regarding timber is why is Alton but pink now you
would have seen in my other videos that you've already subscribed that we use a lot of pink
timber for our framing for for just pretty much everything now the pink stuff is H 1.2 which is
pretty much the lowest grade that we use H 1 and H 1.1 exists but I don't think I've even
seen them that's how uncommon they are and I think it's because the minimum requirement on
a house is H 1.2 and the companies that sell the timber don't want you to accidentally use
the wrong timber and get yourself and them in trouble so they make it very difficult for you
to buy anything lower than H 1.2 and that's the reason why when I built that bench their
workbench it was all pink because um that's just the only thing I could get to do the job
it's not a perfect match to the other one but a little bit of planning and sanding to get it to
get it pretty close I don't like the silicon they're tender Tim describers I just like
to prime them and get them in there because everything's gonna move you know in silicon
doesn't last forever all right the further away from it you get the better it looks most important
thing though a ground clearance so we use pine for pretty much all our timber here in John obviously
there are exceptions Pines the cheapest it grows the quickest so we haven't always used treated
timber that's sort of a new thing and it comes with like the fact that we had to go from native
timber to timber that grows quicker which is pine so this is pine and this other stuff is like the
native timber that you know trees they were like a hundred years old they have to chop them all down
and you know it's not very sustainable you have to wait a hundred years for a tree to grow and
then you chop it down they switch to pine problem with pine is that has no durability basically the
insects can eat it the moisture can wash it and that's where the timber treatment comes in yeah
that looks all right as far as how they treat it I'm not 100% sure on that I've read up and
they said it's like a um a vacuum seal kind of thing that pressures the I guess it pressures
the treatment into the timber one form of timber treatment here in New Zealand is to layer paint
on over and over and over so you end up with these old timber houses with about four coats of
paint on it anyway what I'm doing here is just to prime it just so you know moisture doesn't
ruin the timber so if anybody's wondering where part of us he's actually on holiday
I think he's away for a couple of weeks and I'll be doing the
same I'll be hitting off very soon I'm staying in New Zealand I'll be
going to the South Island so that'll be the end of next week very exciting