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Paraffin oil to protect garden furniture
The care instructions for my habitat garden furniture (oak) say that I
should regularly oil it using paraffin/furniture oil. Do you know where it can be purchased? thank you, CM |
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wrote in message ups.com... The care instructions for my habitat garden furniture (oak) say that I should regularly oil it using paraffin/furniture oil. Do you know where it can be purchased? thank you, CM Never used Organoil and will have a look, but a traditional protective is Tung or Teak oil. Once a day for a week, once a week for a month, once a month for a year and once a year forever. I have some oak doors (external) that are approaching 100 years old and are in remarkably good fettle. Care instruction has been passed down through the family. HTH Nick. |
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:11:07 +0100, "Nick" wrote:
Never used Organoil and will have a look, but a traditional protective is Tung or Teak oil. Tung isn't very good (alone) outdoors. Teak oil is only for teak, ipe or similar (it's mainly for appearance and assumes the wood is already inherently oily) I have some oak doors (external) that are approaching 100 years old and are in remarkably good fettle. That's because they're oak. If they're English white oak (or French) then they'll last well just thrown outdoors and ignored, so long as they're a big enough cross-section that radial cracking isn't a structural problem. American white oak (Q. alba) isn't quite so robust, but is still pretty good. I don't know what Habitat are using these days. It could be a red oak though, which is much less resistant and will need a finish. |
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"Andy Dingley" wrote in message I have some oak doors (external) that are approaching 100 years old and are in remarkably good fettle. That's because they're oak. If they're English white oak (or French) then they'll last well just thrown outdoors and ignored, so long as they're a big enough cross-section that radial cracking isn't a structural problem. Tht was my reaction. I've seen centuries old oak doors, untreated and in daily use, which are fine. Mary |
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Anyway what are you doing buying wooden furniture, your local builders merchants got a find select of wood and power tools to make your own! Best regards Cameron Taylor |
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Andy Dingley wrote:
On 13 Jun 2005 16:20:04 -0700, wrote: is linseed oil not better? No it's terrible. It;s hard to apply without leaving stickiness behind, it yellows like crazy (why most finishing oils are based on tung, not linseed) and it has poor weather resistance unless you use the right sort of dried (aka boiled) oil - which is no longer clear. Interesting. Linseed oil paints are reckoned to have the longest recoating times of all wood paints, at 15 years. Maybe the density of pigment makes the yellowing not such an issue, and boiled is used? NT |
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