This is the second in an ongoing series of blogs related to a wooden home project in Chiang Mai, Thailand (the capital of northern Thailand) that is being finished with TufShield™. You can refer to the first blog entry regarding this project on January 9 to learn about the project background and to see some pictures of the untreated wood and the home itself as it's being built.

In this entry, we're going to see pictures of the wood being treated with a wood stain. As mentioned in the first blog, almost all of the wood in the project is being treated with a dark rub stain to give a dark, rich looking shade to the wood.

TufShield™ Base Coat will then be applied over top of the stain once it has dried and TufShield™ Top Coat Satin will be applied as the finishing coat.

The first picture to the right shows the dark rub stain being applied to one of the doors.











Here is a doorframe that has been treated with the dark rub stain. Notice how dark the finish is compared with some of the untreated wood that we saw back in Thailand Wooden Home Project Blog #1 from January 9.



















Here is a closeup picture of a wooden doorframe that has been treated with the dark rub stain.





















Here is a picture of a teak window with the dark rub stain already applied.

In future posts, we'll see some of the teak windows after they've been finished with TufShield™ too.












Just to recap, the dark rub stain was applied to give the untreated wood a dark rich brown colour. TufShield™ products will then be applied over top of the rub stain to protect the wood. Since the house is located in Thailand, it will be subjected to a number of elements not the least of which will be the beating sun (UV rays) as well as rain (especially during the rainy season).

For our next blog entry, we'll show the wood being treated with TufShield™ Base Coat. The wood being treated is going to get 4 coats of Base Coat and then 2 coats of Top Coat Satin to finish it off so stay tuned for pictures of the ongoing progress.

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