Greetings,
A month or so ago, I bought a trailer load of Camphor Laurel slabs. The slabs were only recently cut, so they're still very green.
Today I was going through the stack, brushing a second coat of the Carbatec green timber wax coating stuff (I don't know the stuff's proper name is) onto the end grain of each of the slabs - something I routinely do a month or two after the first coat.
What I've found today on some of the slabs is a growth of black spotty mould, and in some cases, a white fluffy mould (or fungus ?).
I've had the slabs stacked on the house's Verandah, under the roof, and on a concrete floor, for about six or so weeks. The slabs are stickered with 25 x 25 mm offcuts, so there's plenty of airflow around them. I don't have any sort of cover (tarps etc) over the stack, as the location can only get rain on it in the event of a really bad storm from the north east (which is rare for us), in which case the slabs might get a bit of horizontal rain. The slabs have remained dry since I stored them in that location. Weather wise - with the exception of one day where we had 16mm of light rain, it has been a typical southern Queensland winter, with minimum temps around 5 degrees and maximums around 20 to 25 degrees each day.
Any suggestions for what I should do to arrest the growth of the mould and fungus ? I really don't want spalted Camphor Laurel !
Photographs below.
Many thanks,
RoyG
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A month or so ago, I bought a trailer load of Camphor Laurel slabs. The slabs were only recently cut, so they're still very green.
Today I was going through the stack, brushing a second coat of the Carbatec green timber wax coating stuff (I don't know the stuff's proper name is) onto the end grain of each of the slabs - something I routinely do a month or two after the first coat.
What I've found today on some of the slabs is a growth of black spotty mould, and in some cases, a white fluffy mould (or fungus ?).
I've had the slabs stacked on the house's Verandah, under the roof, and on a concrete floor, for about six or so weeks. The slabs are stickered with 25 x 25 mm offcuts, so there's plenty of airflow around them. I don't have any sort of cover (tarps etc) over the stack, as the location can only get rain on it in the event of a really bad storm from the north east (which is rare for us), in which case the slabs might get a bit of horizontal rain. The slabs have remained dry since I stored them in that location. Weather wise - with the exception of one day where we had 16mm of light rain, it has been a typical southern Queensland winter, with minimum temps around 5 degrees and maximums around 20 to 25 degrees each day.
Any suggestions for what I should do to arrest the growth of the mould and fungus ? I really don't want spalted Camphor Laurel !
Photographs below.
Many thanks,
RoyG
20150902_132544.jpg
20150902_132533.jpg
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