Here are some snaps of logs and exterior trim done on a rustic house. The wood is bark-on eastern white cedar, and as far as I know, if the trees are cut in the right season (cold dead winter) the bark stays on forever.
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Cool. Looks like something I should have done. Btw, Doud DID do a lot with logs at his place, I wish he'd post pics of his entrance way.
And YUP, winter cut holds the bark longer, I dunno about indefinitly, but much longer.
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If we do it, a paint roller is used to do two coats of oilbased solid color stain, color dark brown, on the sawcut faces of the trim. These guys used some sort of a penetrating oil without pigment.
Dont know about NY bugs and E. White cedar, but here in the NW if you leave the bark on West red cedar or Dfir, the bugs will have a feast just under the bark and the bark will fall off in a few months, a few years if it was kiln dried immediately after cutting.
Leave the bark on alder or Hemlock, and the bugs REALLY have a feast.
Makes me think of the bumpersticker, "My kid beat up your honor student."
Your bugs would eat our bugs. But your bugs wouldn't survive the winters our bugs sleep through.
Gene,
In the first photo it looks like the bark is twisting on the piece on the left side of the window. To me that would indicate the grain moves that way too, which would in turn make the whole piece twist as it dries out.
It looks kind of cool now, but have these folks considered wood movement and grain direction? I would think that after a few years the pieces would end up moving and the trim would look like a twisted mess.
How are the carps fastening the splits?
J.P.
I too think the bark on exterior treatment is a bad idea - it might be a bad idea inside too, but I've done it -
I did hollow out the back of the pieces so to weaken/control warping/twisting/checking action - things look pretty good 5 years later - the colors have weakened - the poplar went brown and the sycamore has lost it's green - is now gray/white - no pest problems, but it is interior trim -