Wood treatment - risk classes

Dye-impregnated used is TANALITH E3492.
Presentation:
Wood is too valuable material to allow degradation or destruction by Xylophagy insects and fungi infestation.
The treatment TANALITH E protects the wood, providing a much longer period of use thereof, away from the attack of insects, termites, white, red and brown rots, soft rot of marine organisms. TANALITH E is a product of Arch Timber Protection Company made without chromium and arsenic.
Use:
It is appropriate to treat all species of wood and has a high efficacy for both wood above the ground and in contact with the ground. It proved a high efficiency by major attacks against destructive agents such as molds, fungi and insects in field tests conducted in Europe, North America and Australia. TANALITH E can be used in countries where  products containing heavy metals are banned and where issues of environmental protection is of major importance.  
Wood treated with TANALITH E shows a green uniform colour, with excellent properties to weather conditions and doesn't smell. There are also a range of paints with pigments if calling different colors. Because of the excellent exhibition and original formulation, TANALITH E became a very popular choice in the treatment of garden furniture, playground equipment and other garments made of wood.

Treatment is applied through a standard vacuum-pressure process. TANALITH E's chemical components are very well fixed in the wood structure, giving the possibility of using both products for different types of furniture and in agriculture (eg: vine pegs).

RISK CLASSES:

USE CLASS USE SITUATIONS PRINCIPAL BIOLOGICAL AGENCY TYPICAL SERVICE SITUATION TYPICAL EXAMPLES
1 Above ground, covered.
Permanently dry.
Premanently less than 18% moisture content.		 Insects Internal with no risk of wetting or condensation. All timbers in normal pitched roofs except tiling battens and valley gutter timbers.
Flootr boards, architraves, internal joinery, skirtings.
All timbers in upper floors not build into solid external walls.
2 Above ground, covered.
Occasional risk of wetting.
Ocassionally more than 70% moisture content;		 Fungi
Insects		 Internal with risk of wetting or condensation. Tiling battens, structural timbers in timber frame house, timber in pitched roofs with high condensation risk, timbers in flat roofs, valley gutter timbers, ground floor joists, sole plates (above dpc), timber joists in upper floors build into external walls.
3.1

3.2		 Above ground, not covered.
Exposed to frequent wetting.
Often greater than 20% moisture content.		 Fungi External, above damp proof course (dpc) - coated.




External, above damp proof course (dpc) - uncoated.		 External joinery including roof soffits and fascias, bargeboards, cladding.




Fence rails, gates, fence boards, garden timbers, cladding, deck boards and balustrades, agricultural timbers not in soil/manure contact.
4 In contact with ground or fresh water.
Permanently exposed to wetting.
Permanently above 20% moisture content.		 Fungi Soil contact.
Timbers in permanent contact with the ground or below dpc.		 Fence posts, gravel boarrds, dek support timbers, agricultural timbers in soil/manure contact, poles, sleepers, garden timbers.
Fresh water contact.
Timbers in permanent contact with fresh water.		 Lock gates, revetments.
Cooling tower timbers. Cooling tower packing (fresh water).