Cuprinol Garden Furniture Restorer For Wood, 1L, Clear

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Before staining garden furniture, it’s important to ensure that the wood is ready or has been prepared for the stain treatment. The following advice gives the best approach for various types of outdoor furniture, new and old, bare wood and previously treated.

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In addition to dedicated garden furniture stains, there are alternative products that can be used to colour and protect softwood and hardwood garden furniture. Cuprinol Ultimate Furniture Oil: A high performance furniture oil for use on all bare and previously oiled hardwood garden furniture You paint a coat onto damp teak, wait until it’s nearly dry and paint on another coat. This is then left for some days, ideally with a little rain, whereupon the wood will turn a uniform silver-grey.After a winter’s exposure and near a scrap metal yard, this teak was green and slippery, with slimy mould and lots of dirt turning it a green-grey – all in all, a good test for the products.

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Most people think it’s the way forward, and although it might seem satisfying as you watch it change colour we’ve seen lovely furniture destroyed by the powerful jets stripping away timber along with the dirt. Instead, I recommend cleaning it all over with a wood cleaner, giving it light sand, and then applying a saturating wood oil. This will keep your wooden seats and tables strong and looking their best for decades.’The wood left behind was a good colour, leaving it in the top tier of products, having most of the grey removed. With any type of garden furniture stain, the key to a professional looking finish and one that will last is in the preparation. Preparing garden furniture prior to staining Before you start cleaning the wood, remove any loose dirt using a soft brush or vacuum, and make sure the wood is dry before doing so. If you can’t use a specialised wood cleaner, Rian Habergham, garden furniture expert at Leisure Bench advises using warm and soapy water. Another two-stage product, the red cleaner is diluted at 5:1 for badly weathered teak and 10:1 for cleaner teak, and applied to wet wood with a sponge. It’s left for two minutes and then rinsed off before the second, green stage is applied.

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Step Three: Make sure that the replacement strand of rattan is longer than the strand you have cut out. All of the teak cleaners (even the bleach solution) improved the wood, removing stains and dirt. Some were better than others when it came to bringing out the colour of the wood, however. The best teak cleaner in terms of colour restoration was the two-part Wessex teak treatment which was easy to apply, required no scrubbing and left the teak looking ‘just sanded’. If its bare wood then the short answer is yes. Previously treated garden furniture can usually still be coloured or stained but previous treatments need to be taken into consideration. For example, a varnish type stain or paint generally can’t be used over wooden outdoor furniture that has been previously oiled. Garden furniture previously oiled with a clear wood oil however can be stained with a coloured garden furniture oil. Ronseal Ultimate Protection Hardwood Furniture Oil: A deep penetrating hardwood garden furniture oil that stains and protects bare wood or previously oiled hardwood garden furniture Make sure to be a bit more gentle with the process as otherwise, you could damage the finish. If there is any metal on your rattan furniture, you will have to pay special attention to these bits to ensure that they don't go rusty and are treated properly.’There are many touted remedies. Some people use a stiff brush and seawater to scrub them down – but this isn’t recommended, according to experts. They say that this raises the grain and wears away the teak, which can expose screw heads and lead to early failure and replacement of the teak. Others recommend pressure-washing the teak – but again, this can cause major damage to the wood and should be avoided. We applied it as directed and left it. After 10 days the wood had already started to look better, having lost the growth that had previously made it slippery and dirty.