For you trivia buffs. What was the name of the Knight who designed and build King Authors Round Table? (answer below)
Hey, it’s spring and if you’re like most people your thoughts are turning to home maintenance and fix up projects. One item I would put high on my "to do list" is sharpening the mower blades. Dull blades take their toll on your grass by shredding the cut edges rather than cutting them. This results in a brown to yellow cast in your yard and increases the water required to keep the grass healthy. Getting back to cabinets and wood in general, …that is the blog topic… summer humidity can be hard on your cabinets, especially the doors. If you have solid wood, raised panel, doors this is especially so.
Coming off the normally drier winter months makes this a good time to inspect your cabinets. Look closely to see if the panel in the center of your door has shrunk. Inspect it closely up both sides where the panel fits into the side pieces (called styles). You’re looking for unstained wood or dark lines on the panel. They will appear as the panel gives up its moisture, during the dry winter and shrinks. The line is where the panel was, in relationship to the rail, when it was stained and finished.
Movement is normal but problems can occur when to much expansion and contraction occurs. Usually the problem will be the unstained wood showing along the panel edge or a split in the panel. In another post I will go into more of the properties of wood and how to address the problem. For now you can be assured it’s one of two things, assuming you see shrinkage. The first is you need to add humidity during the winter months or the other being your finish may be not doing its job. There can be other tell tale sings your finish is failing which I will get into later. For now look at your doors next time your in the kitchen and see what you find.
Answer........Sir Cumference……
Hey, it’s spring and if you’re like most people your thoughts are turning to home maintenance and fix up projects. One item I would put high on my "to do list" is sharpening the mower blades. Dull blades take their toll on your grass by shredding the cut edges rather than cutting them. This results in a brown to yellow cast in your yard and increases the water required to keep the grass healthy. Getting back to cabinets and wood in general, …that is the blog topic… summer humidity can be hard on your cabinets, especially the doors. If you have solid wood, raised panel, doors this is especially so.
Coming off the normally drier winter months makes this a good time to inspect your cabinets. Look closely to see if the panel in the center of your door has shrunk. Inspect it closely up both sides where the panel fits into the side pieces (called styles). You’re looking for unstained wood or dark lines on the panel. They will appear as the panel gives up its moisture, during the dry winter and shrinks. The line is where the panel was, in relationship to the rail, when it was stained and finished.
Movement is normal but problems can occur when to much expansion and contraction occurs. Usually the problem will be the unstained wood showing along the panel edge or a split in the panel. In another post I will go into more of the properties of wood and how to address the problem. For now you can be assured it’s one of two things, assuming you see shrinkage. The first is you need to add humidity during the winter months or the other being your finish may be not doing its job. There can be other tell tale sings your finish is failing which I will get into later. For now look at your doors next time your in the kitchen and see what you find.
Answer........Sir Cumference……
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