exterior wood preservative - treating the exterior wood of the house and garage
Have started to generously apply wood preservative to the exterior wood of the house.
Have applied the front and rear exterior door frames.
Have applied to the front house porch wood, where it attaches to the rain gutters.
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Still to do:
Apply to all exterior house wood, where the wood attaches to the rain gutters.
Apply to all exterior window frame wood. Done.
Apply to the back house exterior wall wood. Done.
Apply to the exterior garage door wood, and its exterior window wood. Done.
Apply to wood underside of the house back entrance way roof wood. Done.
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EDIT 2024-08-28 updated some todo's.
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Wood preservative application suggestions
Use a brush to clean the wood to be treated of debris and dust.
Wear gloves when applying. Do not let the preservative contact your skin. (Says so right on the container.)
Apply generously. Get the wood wet.
Only apply to wood dry of any water, and, Only apply during warm dry weather, where the weather is expected to stay warm and dry for 1wk to 2wks. I mention this because when I treated the front door exterior wood entrance way, the wood of the doorstep stayed looking wet for a full week. It was not until two weeks after I had saturated the front door wood exterior entrance way that the wood no longer looked wet.
Since the wood preservative is oil based, and water has more density, had it rained or gotten wet with water, there was the risk of the water displacing the preservative.
Use disposable brushes. That way you are not using even more nasty chemical solvents to clean brushes.
Plan on regularly re-applying wood preservative to exterior wood every few years. Rain and wet weather will likely reduce the concentration over time in treated wood. To keep the protection, re-apply.