Csims,
I wouldn’t use Cypress for a wood bed.
In the old days, the Cypress was harvested from swamps. The center of the tree, known as heart cypress, was fairly rot resistant probably because of where it grew. The trees that were not rot resistant, rotted and fell back into the swamp… an evolutionary cleansing so to speak….
What was harvested was what was left. Today, none of that counts. They harvest everything …. Even the bark that is turned into mulch, rots. Cypress has no real resistance to rot any more. Maybe if you found some on an old building, that might have some anti rot value. Your better off choosing a wood that has been dried and then soak it with an anti rot material. On a house, that’s what paint is for…….
See my previous posting as to what I did…. I effectively used clear paint. The problem with wood is that expands and contracts therefore cracking the paint (sealed surface) and letting water in where strange things grow. That’s why you need to use a flexible coating, vinyl paint, to cover the surface or get a flexible material which is absorbed into the wood fibers so if it cracks, the fibers are protected.
Mike
