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Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint?
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Posted by jdemaris on August 27, 2006 at 18:50:59 from (66.218.23.39):
In Reply to: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? posted by Tim in New York on August 27, 2006 at 09:09:58:
It will hold paint fine if you can ever get it dry. That's not easy in New York State. I had some 14" wide hemlock boards planed on one side and kiln dried a few years ago - to make some barn doors and the oil-base paint I used worked with no problems. If you're using a light paint though, use a good primer because the tanin in the hemlock bleeds through.
If you ever buy any ornamental pressure-treated wood, like porch turned spindles or post-caps, they are usually Canadian Hemlock (instead of Southern Yellow Pine). The Canadian hemlock seems better quality than our New York hemlock.
I've also noticed that hemlock does not hold a flat surface after drying and planing - the grain keeps coming up.
In regard to green hemlock, I've got two newer barns sided with it (board and batton), and one old barn built around 1830 (lapped horizontal siding). The addition on my house is also hemlock - vertical channel shiplap, 12" wide boards. The hemlock siding has never seemed to get dry enough on any of them where I'd want to risk painting. I prefer it bare anyway because it weathers to a nice orange-brown color - unlike White Pine that seems to weather to dull ugly gray.
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