Wet Winter and Mold

[TreeBones]

This winter we had plenty of wet and overcast weather and for the first time I had some Pine that was stacked and stickered start molding. That's a first for me here. In past years if stacks were rained on the sun or wind never let them mold. It was freshly cut and all my lumber that had already dried before winter seems to be doing OK. I'll need to keep a closer eye on the weather next year.

[Magicman]

A Clorox solution may help to kill it.

[traditionaltoolworks]

Olympic Deck Cleaner could work on that. Has some mold agents in it, not a lot, but does work well in my experience. $15 for 2.5 gal. from Lowes.

[TreeBones]

A little sanding cleans it up and should be ok as long as it stays dry now. Next winter I will have an abundance of quality tarps to keep the rain off.

[redbeard]

I never had very good luck with tarps at least the blue ones from home depot, I always had mold and mildew on the top boards, I like to use metal roofing with some 4x4s between the top of stack.

[Magicman]

I've seen folks actually build a little framework arrangement with roofing attached that could be moved and reused.

[Backwoods sawyer]

At the production mill, we just ran 8’ logs, and during the rainy season all stacks got a roof top put on them. The roof tops were just a piece of plywood with three stickers nailed to the bottom of them and could be handled with the forklift. They still had mold issues if the wood was not dry enough when it was wrapped and shipped to Arizona where the wrap worked like a Petri dish.