J4CKO

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Have put the wooden garden furniture away for the winter, it was looking pretty sorry for itself and all the stain was coming off so I blasted the rest off with the pressure washer, so now it needs treating.

What is the best way to treat it, a wax, a stain or a varnish, I think it is Eucalyptus wood

addi monster

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We oil ours mate

Martin2005

You could buy it a box of chocolates?

TelBoy

Linseed oil is what the garden centres will sell you. It's extremely thin and you don't need a lot of it. Once a year is usually enough.

But if the wood has gone grey, as it almost always does, then a colour restorer is worth a go. Without a shadow of a doubt the best one is made by the Dutch firm HG. All their products are excellent and this is no exception.

http://uk.hg.eu/products/show/id/538...lour_renovator

RobsyUK

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Remember where ever you treat it you WILL get it on the floor... do it in an area you don't mind messing up - Varnished a front door on an old house, then 'someone' opened the door to take some rubbish out and a drip from the bottom landed inside the house! Fortunatly there was no carpet down!

hodgy0_2

linseed oil

Mary mag

Teak oil

vindaloo

You need to ask the right kind of bear.

urban

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+1

andy97

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Like your woman keep her well oiled, keep using it different positions

David Lock

Teak oil, in particular, breaks down in sunlight so you'll need to do it every season. I have never found a way of restoring to showroom condition. I ended up using a mat varnish which didn't look as nice but lasted for a year or two. The showroom will try and con you into using expensive teak oil but it doesn't last. dl

J4CKO

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Will just grab some Teak oil and do it each year, just dont want to igniore it and throw it away for the sake aof a couple of hours work.

TelBoy

The stuff i recommended does work too you know.


Am i on one of those "invisble to everyone else" lists

Mary mag

Who said that?


Teak oil doesn't impart a finish to hardwood and soaks right in.
It also weathers by erosion and will therefore need doing yearly if the furniture is left outside uncovered.

Varnish of any type should not be used externally - it doesn't move with the timber and so cracks and lets water ingress.

All that said, if the OP's furniture is actually Eucalyptus wood, and if its the higher quality heartwood (as opposed to the sapwood), then it shouldn't need much treating.
This timber is mainly grown in Hawaii and can lay in wet rainforest for 10, 20 years untreated without rotting.

But if it was me, teak oil is all you need.

TelBoy

Mary do you read a lot of magazines?

Mary mag

Not many, no.

Arborist Monthly mainly.
Why do you ask this question?

Mary mag

Not many, no.

Arborist Monthly mainly.
Why do you ask this question?

ALi-B

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I got fed up of using various "protector's" and teak oils on our garden furniture (teak loungers). they seem to last 6 to 12 months before they start to go grey and need redoing (furntiure is left out in the elements all year).

So I stripped off the remaining oil and removed all the grey wood with the jet washer (with a fan-jet nozzle), power sanded it smooth. And stained it with two coats of Ronseal 5 year exterior wood stain, in golden cedar...(I hate mahogany stain urrgh).

Ok its lost its original teak colour, but 5yrs later still looking good .

urban

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True, teak oil will need treated every year.
But if you buy the spray can job, its a quick enough job.

ALi-B

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I think my logic for using the 5yr woodstain was that when I was in B&Q I noticed it was only a couple quid more than the oil/protector for the same size tin, which typically lasted less than a year.

Leslie

I'd have thought that using the woodstain would spoil its antique look.

Les

J4CKO

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Les, I painted it last with left over Orange shed paint, it looked crap and left everyone looking like a barbers pole.

TelBoy

HG do a product which avoids that look. Apparently.

ALi-B

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Antique meaning grey/black/moldy timber?

With regards to the teak, because its quite a light/opaque stain (unlike hideous dark coloured stains like mahongany, which as I've said I hate), I'd say its enhanced the colour.

I did the wooden slats on the bench (wrought iron frame). It must be thirty years old and basically the wood just looked grey and mouldy. I removed the slats so I could take them back to fresh timber with a plane, and stained it with the same stuff as I used for the loungers and it looks far nicer than it have ever done and still looks good five year on. If I oiled it, it would have looked grey and mouldy again in the space of two years.

Suppose if by the time it gets a 4th or 5th coat it wouldn't look too good, but I'd just sand it back by then. One thing I hate when we had painters/decorators in is they always just slap another coat on regardless of the layers underneath. The frame on our poch must have about ten coat of stain on now, so it just looks black; need to sand blast it to restore it.

David Lock

If you have a few bob to spare check this site out for some superb indoor furniture.

http://www.jarabosky.co.uk/content/view/44/108/

dl