Vacuum Kiln Drying Lumber

After a few months bring the wood indoors and finish the drying.

Vacuum kiln drying lumber.

Vacuum kilns are easy to use require minimal training and are perfect for operations drying 10 000 20m board feet of high quality wood per year. We can kiln dry your lumber to 6 8 moisture content in our dehumidification dry kiln. Pcs vacdry kilns are the first to fully control all aspects of the wood drying process. Heating the lumber is necessary to circulate water within the wood and bring it to the surface so that it can be evaporated as steam which either condenses on the cool walls of the pressure chamber and runs to drain or is drawn out of the pressure chamber by the vacuum pump as steam.

Idry kilns bring vacuum drying to everyone. Dry time takes between 3 5 weeks depending on the moisture content of your lumber when it is put in the kiln. The best vacuum systems will dry at a max of about 2 per hour. Vacuum kiln drying offers the advantages of speed gentleness and higher lumber end quality.

Not ready to take the plunge. Some kilns will dry some wood with 0 drying defects. I too have been interested in vacuum kilns for a long time. Traditionally manufacturers have used forced heat kilns for drying lumber.

The new idry kiln has brought vacuum drying to everyone. With a vacdry vacuum wood drying kiln to dry your wood lumber dimensions and squares bent wood bat billets and dowels slabs and flitches timbers exotic wood species veneer and lamella all dry with incredible speed but without stress. Yours will do about 1 so you can guess the bmc of your hemlock. Vacuum kiln drying with idry family owned and operated we have been developing lumber drying technology since 1980.

With vacdry vacuum kiln drying wood comes out of the kiln looking just as it did going in. To build the kiln lay poly clear plastic roll on the ground and then build a frame with 2x4 studs on top of it for the lumber to rest on. Our vacuum kilns are easy to use require minimal training and are perfect for operations drying 10 000 20m board feet of wood per year. A vacuum kiln can dry wood at near room temps in 2 3 days without inducing stress.

Leave enough space to have a standard household dehumidifier at one end and a small fan at the other. Vacuum kilns may have their place for certain drying operations but not for ours at this time. Rates for kiln drying. Vacupress kilns use aluminum heating plates which are heated by hot water that is circulated within the plate not unlike a radiator.

Drying hardwood is an essential part of lumber processing. Slightly above room temperature. While traditional kilns get the job done they are not always the best option. You can dry the wood at about 85 degrees.

Look beyond those old vacutechs.