How To Seal Old Barn Siding

A friend and i managed to find a beautiful barn door and so i took it home and it sat in my garage for quite some time.

How to seal old barn siding.

Just guessing here but i bet you re leaving the gray or otherwise old surface of the wood intact. The soft surface it provides over reclaimed barn wood has the additional benefit of not being ruined by fingerprints. For cleaning and maintaining you only need to wipe the surface with a wet rag. Old barn wood can retain the smell of a farm for decades.

Be sure to ask if your barn board is kiln dried. You guys this stuff is amazing. Metal barn siding people often call us and inquire if we have metal siding. Before i could turn the barn door into a table top i needed to clean the wood up.

Then the idea was born to use this as the top of my craft room work table. Or if your shed looks like it is 100 years old and you want to maintain that look you can search out a source of recycled barn boards and rip them into strips to use on your shed. One thing you should be aware of though is that there are some metal roofing panels that do not work well for siding. Once the wood was dry from its cleaning i used a regular paint brush and sparingly applied the minwax finish.

Have you wondered how to install steel siding on a pole barn. Minwax does have a wipe on polyurethane in a satin finish that will protect the barn wood. I used minwax polycrylic water based protective finish in clear satin. The last step to clean and refinish your reclaimed wood is to properly seal the wood.

You can choose to use something like 1x2 inch cedar strips. Barn board is almost always salvaged as vertical siding so vertical orientation of your boards reproduces a more authentic barn look. The rough weathered look of old barn lumber is appealing so i can see why you d choose it for a piece of furniture. Open the bag and smell the wood.

The sheets cover 3 foot so it goes up pretty fast. The proper approach to this is to install vertical strips of wood over the cracks from the outside. If you smell the odor of animals or other offensive scents use the wood for outside projects only. Naturally we do because metal siding is just metal roofing used to clad or cover walls.

I m jealous you have barn wood. I love how pretty reclaimed wood is. I am making a tv stand out of 100 plus year old barn wood and wondered what you would suggest for a finish. To refresh the finish you can apply a new coat every 5 years or as deemed appropriate.

Not knowing the size or purpose of your barn wood i d suggest mineral oil as used for butcher block.