/ Salvaging Wood
Salvaging wood from elevation panels is tricky; interior spaces were built using plywood so that one could economize on the amount of timber used.
Thin slices of wood are stuck to the plywood using strong adhesives.
Behind the plywood, a frame grid is created using solid wood strips again to economize the amount of wood. These are coated in Black Japan to prevent the wood from infestations from microbes as well as termites.
A lot of nails are used in the process, to hold all these three layers together. Each strip of wood is painstakingly removed, trying to retain as much length as possible.
After that remains the ply-frame with the façade wood panels. We manually cut each nail with the help of a grinder.
Now, the nail-free ply is split into strips breadthwise, finally reducing all the panels into smaller, equal-sized bands.
Finally, the ply from the strips is individually scraped off as and when we need them in our projects.
There is a rough grid of shallow cuts we make and then the leftover ply is chiseled off with the hand.
Any leftover nails too are removed here. It is much easier to store them now.
The strips are prepared as we need them.