Shou Sugi Ban - burnt wood for protection against fire, rot, & insects

When I was house shopping we looked at and crossed off a bunch of log cabins. The cabins we looked at had problems with Rot & Termites.

Floating around youtube last week, I came on this process called Shou-Sugi-Ban where the wood is burnt to help prevent most of those problem.

Below taken from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/t...-sugi-ban.html

"It’s a counterintuitive but ingenious idea: heating wood to render it fireproof. If you’ve ever tried to rekindle a campfire using burnt logs, you get the idea. The combustion also neutralizes the cellulose in the wood — the carbohydrates that termites, fungus and bacteria love — making it undesirable to pests and resistant to rot. The resulting charcoal layer repels water and prevents sun damage as well. By some estimates, boards that have undergone this process can last 80 years or more, but Japan’s Buddhist Horyuji Temple in Nara prefecture, whose five-story pagoda is one of the world’s oldest extant wooden structures, has been around for much longer. Initially built in A.D. 607, the pagoda caught fire and was rebuilt in 711 using shou sugi ban."

This fella in Canada uses this treatment on his cabin's roof panels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOUHvsjZrt0

Curious if anyone here has used this idea?

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Shou Sugi Ban - burnt wood for protection against fire, rot, & insects