The Easiest Way To Treat Bamboo To Last Decades Using the Bucket Method

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To keep bamboo from falling apart in a few years, you have to treat it. There are a lot of different ways you can treat bamboo. You can soak them in tanks, treat them in heat or have them soak up treatment solution through capillary action.
That's what we're doing in this video with the Bucket Method for treating bamboo.
Are you ready to find out how it is done? Then watch this video.
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[@yoBigWave]

The Bamboo Guru is back!

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

I've got a few more bamboo videos in me.

[@IamSamWalton]

Doing a outdoor pond and using some OLDer brown bamboo that I bought off Facebook Marketplace- do you think it will be OK to wash with soap and distilled water. Let dry and then coat with spar urethane?

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

That’s perfect

[@henryeddoh7850]

Great content. How do you treat 100 bamboos at a time? By the bucket method that will require lots of buckets and treatment solutions.....

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

I have a lot of other videos on this subject, you need to do cold soak immersion

[@dialecticcoma]

apologies for late reply, just wondering if the bamboo would be ok to use with water (for hydroponics potentially,) after the treatment?

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

Treat with borax/boric acid and should be fine

[@krystlecha]

Have you ever contacted the guy who made the Hilo/Kona transfer station portable bamboo shelters? It would be cool to see a tour of what he's got going on and his methods of preservation since they've been up since 2009.

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

Could be worth trying. Thanks for the suggestions

[@boneshome]

I saw your vidoe which said hot treatmeant with borax needs only 24 hours. Is that true? Is it the fastest method if space is not a concern?

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

Heat speeds up te process but it’s energy intensive

[@graceboss9089]

I just subscribed to your channel. I just purchased bamboo fence and I want to ask you what is the best wood sealer to protect my fance? I used Thompson wood sealer and doesn't absorb.😢

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

TWP Wood Protector www.amazon.com/AMTECO-TWP-100-1-Gallon-Clear-Extension/dp/B001H1NFT4?crid=3QPR8YFYSO4SG&keywords=twp+wood+preservative&qid=1701066393&sprefix=twp+wood%2Caps%2C233&sr=8-5&linkCode=ll1&tag=homesteadi0cb-20&linkId=75221adb150fc97bfc61aaa0069c2614&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

[@jratcliff63367]

I tried getting in contact with you via the website but didn't get a response. I was hoping to have you do a consult for my new property. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks.

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

I just sent you an email. I don't get on the computer much over the weekends

[@Hakipuuyou]

If you can use a dye and add it to the boric acid/borax mix, you can see how far it’s penetrated, when treating the culms , standing vertical with all the nodes pierced with a long piece of pointed rebar except for the very bottom one so that you can fill the comb with the borate mix for several weeks, and the dye will show the penetration effectiveness. I’m sure you know about this, although personally, I have not tried using the dye in the live cut soaking method yet. Oh, and a huge Mahalo, for turning me onto Bamboo university in Bali! That money spent was absolutely worth the knowledge gained and just being exposed to the beautiful architecture was incredible in itself. Another bambusero.. in Hakipu’u Oahu.

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

I always forget about added dye. I did it in one video but it always slips my mind. Glad you liked bamboou. Enjoy building

[@spaceman100]

Yo yo wassup

[@spaceman100]

Shoutout to the Home Depot bucket❤

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

It's like, who doesn't have one at this point, right?

[@TriggerHappy007]

Copper sulfate is expensive though! For a small 4 pound bag can be 36-74 dollars or if you need a lot can be 100$ of dollars

[@HomesteadinHawaii]

Good point, I prefer boric acid and borax for that reason, but it can still add up