More and more inhabitants of our glowed, dusty and noisy cities are rushing into nature. No wonder the construction of country houses, cottages and entire cottage villages acquires an increasing scope that even the crisis could not stop. At the same time, preference is often given to the project of a wooden house. Perhaps at a subconscious level a wooden house is associated with a fabulous hut from children’s fairy tales? Or craving for natural wood is originally laid down in the nature of man? Be that as it may, in a wooden house he breathes and lives in a completely different way-perhaps the natural power of the tree somehow fuel our energy?
However, if you return to the everyday level, then when building a wooden house, many questions arise: from what varieties of wood to perform its interior, covering walls and floor, how to protect the wooden facade?
It is known that the main enemies of wooden buildings are moisture, mold fungus and insects. They traditionally fight with the help of impregnation of wood. For centuries ago, wood was impregnated with vegetable oils, tar, mineral pigments and waxes, that is, natural substances borrowed from the same world of nature to which the wood itself belongs.
However, the development of science and the need for new technologies caused fundamentally new means to protect wood – these are synthetic coatings and paints that began to perform a protective function.
The basis of synthetic colors is oil, and in the process of production and the finished product there are substances harmful to human health, including chlorine, xylol, toluene, etc., And there is nothing to say about the damage to the environmental situation.
However, about a quarter of a century ago an alternative appeared – natural colors, the basis of which are plants and minerals, without the participation of oil products. In the process of chemical reactions of heating and distillation from plant and mineral raw materials, paint is obtained, reliable and environmentally friendly. And this is natural, because the composition of natural colors includes various oils (linen, castor, sunflower, etc. D.), clay, plant alcohol, silicic acid and many other harmless substances for humans. Environmentally friendly LKMs have a number of advantages compared to synthetics. But not everyone is good like such paint the price, like many natural materials, is approximately 30-40% higher than that of synthetic analogues.
Synthetic paint applied to wood has all the properties of plastic due to a similar polymer structure. It completely blocks the natural air – and the ferry between wood and the surrounding atmosphere, and due to this itself is deformed, cracks and flies around.
When coating with natural colors, the tree continues to “breathe”, and the paint does not exfoliate from its surface. Natural paints from a financial point of view justify themselves after 1-3 years.
Do not forget about such a factor as health and environmental friendliness. Think about how you will breathe in a wooden house you and your children. I think there are no alternatives to natural colors!