old oak

[gmh]

My family just purchased an old oak farm house and barn and now I'm trying to track down anywhere that sells old recycled oak planks and beams.
Also looking for old recycled red bricks.
and... does anyone know of any saw mills in the Kutina area
Any help is welcome.

Cheers

[gmh]

Ok, no bites on the oak and bricks so far.
Never mind, I've found some leads in the oglasnik.

Has anyone come across a good product in Croatia for sealing roof tiles ?

[Ribaric]

Sorry, I missed this one.
I did see a lumber yard recently in which there was a huge pile of rough cut panels from tree trunks. I don't know if it was hrast but, when my memory returns, I'll get a number for you.

What do you mean "sealing" roof tiles? Broken ones?

[boris]

Pevec sells roof sealants.

[gmh]

Sept 13, 2008 23:47:18 GMT 1 Ribaric said:

Sorry, I missed this one.
I did see a lumber yard recently in which there was a huge pile of rough cut panels from tree trunks. I don't know if it was hrast but, when my memory returns, I'll get a number for you.

What do you mean "sealing" roof tiles? Broken ones?

No need to bother with the number for the sawmill, I know of a few and have tracked down a bunch of old oak through online oglasniks. Seems there's plenty around.

By sealing roof tiles I mean.... The farm house and barn have old 'biber' stile clay tiles.
For the barn I would like to coat the tiles with some kind of clear waterproofing liquid in order to extend their life a bit . I've discovered products on the net for this purpose.
I guess as Boris suggested, I'll go to Pevec or Bauhaus and see if I can explain what I need.

[Madgolfer]

Plenty of aged oak, bricks and biber roof tiles up this way if you need them. Cleaned and dressed clay bricks are selling for around 780kn - 900kn cubic metre plus delivery, allow around 10-15 wastage/breakage for the bricks and 20-30 breakage with old biber roof tiles.

Check aged oak carefully, especially for any boring infestation. It can be cured with durvocid and such like, but is not cheap.

Also, be carefull when "sealing" clay roof tiles as these products effectively take out the breathabillity of the tiles and you can end up with serious condensation/damp rpoblems in an attic space if it does not have sufficient ventilation.

From experience reclaimed biber tiles over 50 years old look great but are a pain in the backside longterm. if your looking for a quick fix/temp repair OK, but long term not so good.

Hope that helps.

[gmh]

Cheers mad,
I figured you'd probably have some leads on this stuff.
Wasn't planning to seal whole roof, just individual tiles. Couldn't be any different from having glazed tiles. Just a patch up job for now. I see you can get fancy modern 'double' biber tiles that provide superior insulation these days. That would be my ultimate solution.
As for killing bugs in wood, I recently read something about co2 treatment that sounded far less dangerous than using poisons. Will have to look into it further.

Any idea what the price for bricks you quoted works out to per brick ? I've seen them for about 2kn each in the oglasnik.

[Madgolfer]

being "handmade" the brick sizes do vary a great deal from house to house and therefore the quantity per cubic metre/pallet. On average you should expect between 350 and 400 per pallet, so a price of 2kn per brick would be about right.

Ive read about the Co2/Nitrate protection but I dont have any practical experience of using it at present. Im not sure if its a techinque or product you can use yourself (un-like Drvocid etc) or if you need a specialst installer. Be interested to hear more if you go down that route.

The double biber tiles from Nexe and Toundach certainly make installation a lot quicker and look exactly the same when fiited, not a cheap option mind !