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asking for wood (coffin)
hello, every body. how are U?
i want to asking about maintenance for wood. i am volunteer for coffin in my church. i have problem, for old stock coffin, they have small louse/fleas/thicks or some fungous (white powder). what is simple solution for that, can we coped it?
anybody have experience with wood?
thanks.
Merry Christmas 2010 and Happy New Year 2011
wish u THE BEST.
i want to asking about maintenance for wood. i am volunteer for coffin in my church. i have problem, for old stock coffin, they have small louse/fleas/thicks or some fungous (white powder). what is simple solution for that, can we coped it?
anybody have experience with wood?
thanks.
Merry Christmas 2010 and Happy New Year 2011
wish u THE BEST.
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Permalink Reply by Fireman Larry on
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first you should use an empty, not only unused but never used coffin....
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Permalink Reply by frans on
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u joke?
this is my asking seriously. i want answer for maintenance the wood.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Gregory on
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Frans;
I think you may be misstating what you're trying to say. In English a coffin is the box we bury our dead in. Since you're asking about a church are you perhaps asking about the Pews which is the benches you sit on in church?
Thanks
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hello, all thanks for comment. sorry i have problem in language (bad english).
*Eric Gregory= Sorry i have bad english. here i explanation for what i mean. in my church have warehouse/storehouse for "coffin". i am handle for that as volunteer. this is dilemma, some side we not hear dead, but in some side is good to serve/helping who one to need help for coffin. that all coffin come from java, we order that for stock in church.
in warehouse have min 2 coffin and max 16 coffin. for long time when no one use it i see/look small louse/fleas/thicks or some fungous (white powder). that all make broken wood (coffin). i do not know how to simple maintenance that wood (coffin), i just towel/rag it all.
thanks for discuss.
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Permalink Reply by Vic Silverfish on
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Frans - there are a ton of commercial products you can buy to maintain wood, but they all cost a bit of money, and if you are working for a charity, that's going to be a problem. The thing that's getting you is the humidity, and that is really hard to control. Here are a couple of tricks we used to keep our firewood from rotting in Pa pua New Guinea:
1) Keep it covered and out of the rain
2) Leave some space so air can circulate (for coffins, maybe putting rocks or bricks between them so some air can move between them? Also, leave the lids off!
3) don't let anything touch the ground. If wood touches the ground it gets eaten by termites! (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayap)
If all else fails, you can use boot polish as a stain for the wood to help preserve it. Works well, but probably more expensive than regular woood stain or paint.
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Reading this, I think your coffins are being eaten by termites. I think this link is in Indonesian (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayap).
They look like large grains of rice and make the wood fall apart.
Elevating the wood off of the floor is a good place to start. If you are on a dirt floor, try spraying the underside of the coffins with pesticide. If you are using DDT for mosquitos, that is great at keeping the termites down, and you only need to spray it once. Use it on the outside of the coffins.
If this is happening inside the church, you should check to make sure they aren't infesting the building! Take a screwdriver and jam it in the wood near the ground around the building. You may be surprised!
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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on
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Vic you are a good sport figuring this out !
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Heather - Not really. I have a MS in Entomology, and I did my undergraduate project on termites! Pure luck I caught Frans' post here. What are the odds?
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Vic - good job figuring out what bugs frans!
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:-P
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