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[Lotus]

@Le Turbo - seems simple enough, and that's usually the best advice.

 

P.S. Like your tagline

[porqui]

Lotus I would use Tung oil for outdoor furniture - more waterproof and more hard-wearing. It must be real tung oil though - many products named tung oil with only a squidion of oil.

[Plentipotential]

Can anyone advise me on how to restore a few Rhodesian Teak patio pieces (director's chairs, Morris chairs, coffee table)?

 

They're about 25 years old and have been outdoors for most of that time. Some of them are very weathered, so I guess they need to be sanded back to bare wood, while others have countless layers of furniture polish on them and look dull (the red wood grain isn't very clear anymore).

 

I'm guessing that once sanded (or steelwool'ed) they need to be oiled or sealed, but with what? I understand that Rhodesian Teak is not "Teak" so Teal oil might not be the right product?

 

Wash it with a Karcher or similar pressure washer. Rub with contour sanding pad, these are like the green pads on kitchen sponges. Blow off dust with air, easy with a compressor. Paint liberally with Waksol leave in the hot sun and rub off with a clean rag. Repeat the waksol treatment. Retreat with waksol once a year.

[Lotus]

Wash it with a Karcher or similar pressure washer. Rub with contour sanding pad, these are like the green pads on kitchen sponges. Blow off dust with air, easy with a compressor. Paint liberally with Waksol leave in the hot sun and rub off with a clean rag. Repeat the waksol treatment. Retreat with waksol once a year.

Thanks, and those sanding pads look more "skin friendly" than steel wool (tried tearing steel wool apart with bare hands once, got a cut from a rogue strand that I'll never forget!).

[Pants Boy]

Starting with this nice Bar (Steel, pallet cladding and Rhodesian Teak top) this week - just got the order

 

[Pants Boy]

[Hairy]

Starting with this nice Bar (Steel, pallet cladding and Rhodesian Teak top) this week - just got the order

 

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someone likes Sketch UP

[Slowbee]

Personally, I don't get hung up on any of the definitions. I doubt that most of the "teak" furniture sold these days is genuine teak anyway. It's a fairly endangered wood with a much more beautiful grain than you'll find in these products. 

 

Maar nou ja, ons praat van Rhodesian Teak ... nie eers van Zimbabwe nie.

 

I'd just bung raw linseed oil on. Feed it up. Sanding definitely is unnecessary in 99% of cases. If you feel you'd like to steelwool it, that's fine. Apply the oil with the steelwool.

 

If they're going back outside, I'd give it some Timbaseal wood preservative once the linseed oil has settled and been absorbed after two or three weeks. Concentrate on getting lots of preservative absorbed into the end grain of legs, and elsewhere. 

timbaseal over woodoc products?

[BSG]

Wash it with a Karcher or similar pressure washer. Rub with contour sanding pad, these are like the green pads on kitchen sponges. Blow off dust with air, easy with a compressor. Paint liberally with Waksol leave in the hot sun and rub off with a clean rag. Repeat the waksol treatment. Retreat with waksol once a year.

Waxol is good but silly stupid expensive.

 

A bad day cycling is better than a good day working.

[Gandalf]

just saw this

 

Annual Exhibition, 2016
Woodworking Associaton of Pretoria
1 October from 08:00 to 14:00
New Hope School

http://ptawoodworkers.com/?page_id=2189

 

Annual-Exhibition-WAP.pdf

Edited September 27, 2016 by Gandalf

[Plentipotential]

Waxol is good but silly stupid expensive.

 

A bad day cycling is better than a good day working.

 

Waksol from builders express R148.00 for 5 lt?

[BSG]

Waksol from builders express R148.00 for 5 lt?

That is a really good price.

 

A bad day cycling is better than a good day working.

[Grebel]

Just to be clear.... Waxol is that gloopy brown stuff that you paint onto your Gemini hut once a year to make it last longer...?

 

Won't that mess up your clothes if you put it on a chair?

[Grebel]

someone likes Sketch UP

 

Mate of mine does high end kitchens and they use Sketch up to do the designs.

 

I always though that Sketchup was a kids programme.... (Ignorant I know) Boy was I wrong!! I've never played with it but might be tempted to give it a go soon after seeing what these okes were able to do with kitchen and cabinetry design!

[dev null]

I downloaded SketchUp, but now they want money. My trial has expired.

[ScottCM]

how much do they want after the trial has expired?