Rates for kiln drying.
Vacuum kiln drying lumber.
Slightly above room temperature.
The thought of drying 4 4 hardwood lumber in three days and 8 4 in six days is very exciting.
Traditionally manufacturers have used forced heat kilns for drying lumber.
A superior product in the form of vacupress dried wood unmatched in color flatness and stability and delivering up to 20 increase in yield and up to 40 increase in throughput.
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.
With vacdry vacuum kiln drying wood comes out of the kiln looking just as it did going in.
While traditional kilns get the job done they are not always the best option.
Uneven drying is not a necessary part of vacuum drying.
Vacuum kilns may have their place for certain drying operations but not for ours at this time.
Vacuum kiln drying with idry family owned and operated we have been developing lumber drying technology since 1980.
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.
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.
Some kilns will dry some wood with 0 drying defects.
Vacuum kiln drying offers the advantages of speed gentleness and higher lumber end quality.
You can dry the wood at about 85 degrees.
A vacuum kiln can dry wood at near room temps in 2 3 days without inducing stress.
Vacupress kilns use aluminum heating plates which are heated by hot water that is circulated within the plate not unlike a radiator.
Look beyond those old vacutechs.
After a few months bring the wood indoors and finish the drying.
Pcs vacdry kilns are the first to fully control all aspects of the wood drying process.
Drying hardwood is an essential part of lumber processing.
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.
We can kiln dry your lumber to 6 8 moisture content in our dehumidification dry kiln.
Yours will do about 1 so you can guess the bmc of your hemlock.
Leave enough space to have a standard household dehumidifier at one end and a small fan at the other.
I too have been interested in vacuum kilns for a long time.
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.
The new idry kiln has brought vacuum drying to everyone.
