In the spring, the sun shines, the birds sing and the air is soft! But, despite appearances, it is this season that wooden furniture in your home can suffer. Why and how to make your most beautiful pieces are not damaged? Our tips and tricks.
Spring settles slowly: we open the windows, we put the plaids … But this change of season is not without impact on the house. A detail invisible to the naked eye can cause very real damage. Silent, he settles down and attacks first what is often the most solid: wooden furniture.
During the passage from winter to spring, temperature changes involve variations in humidity, the rate of which increases inside. In winter, the air is relatively dry, while the rains that accompany the summer season increased moisture outside and inside. This is why it is important to adapt the management of humidity in your interior so that your wooden furniture does not suffer the consequences.
First of all, you should know that under its robust aspect, wood is a living material particularly sensitive to variations in the humidity in the ambient air when spring arrives. A phenomenon that generates many changes for furniture and objects made up of wood which, after having undergone the drying winter heating, can retract and expand with spring humidity. In addition, some glues used for the manufacture of furniture can also be weakened due to changes in humidity and alter the quality, even the stability of furniture. It is therefore essential to preserve your wooden furniture from the ambient humidity at the risk that they swell, deform or crack, knowing that when a wooden furniture has absorbed water, it is difficult to be able to dry it optimally.
So what to do? Maintaining stable humidity in the house is the solution that is essential in spring to prevent wood furniture from being damaged. For this you can equip yourself with an air dehumidifier, so as to maintain a humidity understood ideally between 40 and 60%. Also be sure to ventilate your accommodation early in the morning or late in the evening, so as to renew the air without bringing humidity to enter. Waterproofing your wooden furniture can also help preserve them from humidity while increasing their sustainability.
A good reflex: watch your furniture. Wood that swells, drawers that get stuck, doors that close … These are the first signs that humidity is settling in.
