25 October 2018

Looked all over the 5 gallon can of Master Protect^® H 440HZ breathable, solvent based, silane penetrating water-repellent sealer (formerly Hydrozo^® Silane 40 VOC) for some indication of what environmental conditions are required when that product is applied.  Nada… except for paragraph after paragraph, in English, Spanish, and French, warning that this stuff will kill you if you even look at it sidewise. Oh, yeah, and it’s also highly flammable.  Judging by the fact that the inside of the barn is still pretty much a lake hours later, perhaps the barn floor should have been just a wee bit warmer than 39° when I coated it this afternoon.  If the silane ever is absorbed, it will keep salty snowmelt water from penetrating and damaging the barn floor.  At least, that’s the theory…  Also built five supports 36″ above the floor along the south wall, which will be used to store the many 20 foot long pieces of Koma^® trim that need an out-of-the-way place to overwinter.