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