Swedish Putty
A composition using a filler mixed with emulsion or oil paint to produce a hard filler for exterior use.
T.L.V.
Threshold Limit Value. Health and Safety – relates to the upper limit of solvent vapour permitted within the atmosphere.
Tack Rag/Tack Cloth
Trade name
Fabric usually cheese cloth impregnated with a slow drying oil used to remove dust particles after a surface has been rubbed down.
Tails
Finger like sinejets spray pattern in airless spray application – also elongation of paint particles in air spraying multicolour finishes
Tanalised Timber
Tanalised timber.
TANALISED, is timber which has been impregnated with TANALITH (a combination of copper and organic biocide) wood preservative. See VAC-VAC.
Timber treated in the same pressurised chambers as for the Vac-Vac process
and is more associated with sawn timber and coloured green or brown.
Generally used for external works such as fencing, sheds, posts and cladding.
Tannic Acid in Wood
Tannic Acid
Tannins in wood is held in the the sap and or residue and is activate during the timber drying process, when the moisture carries the Tannis onto the timber surface. The staining is shown byway of a yellowish, dark grey or blueish colour. As this residual staining will bleed through an applied paint coating special primers have to used.