Aged wood effect for a larch terrace
How is the effect of aged wood obtained for a larch terrace?
In this review, we would like to introduce you to a product that gives the larch terrace an aged wood effect and a uniform gray shade. After the terrace is installed, experts advise to oil the boards or cover them with other non-film products. Colors are often added to the terrace. In this case, if you want to keep the terrace always beautiful, it has to be oiled or painted every year.
Owning a home requires a lot of maintenance and a lot of weekend work, so more and more people are designing their homes so that the home serves them, not the home. Following this philosophy, they leave the deck boards natural, uncoated, in the hope that exposure to the outside and UV rays will turn them gray quickly and evenly. Boards turn gray quite quickly, but whether evenly is another question. Most often not.
Perhaps you have heard about a “magical” product that can be used to evenly “grease” the terrace boards without having to repaint them. Also, you probably heard that the name of that product is chemical formula. It turns out to be iron sulfate .
When the MDS master team heard this name for the first time, they had to remember a not-so-pleasant work experience. Once, when installing a terrace on a balcony, we installed the terrace floor first, and then started with the metal railing. Calmly, without suspecting anything, we cut off the old armrests, holders, sanded where necessary. This spread metal dust all over the floor. It started raining during the night of the weekend and according to the customers, they were shocked on Saturday morning – the larch boards turned gray in the areas of the terrace where it rained. Our team had to do the work again – to sand the entire newly installed terrace.
The essence of this product is iron particles that spread through the pores of the wood and turn the wood gray from the color of the iron. Then the sun does its thing.
A view of the dry terrace
A view of the wet terrace
Conclusion: A product that works perfectly. According to the manufacturers, it also works as an impregnant. The effect of aged wood and a very beautiful image is obtained when the wood is coated with colorless oil after being treated with iron sulfate.