"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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HLAH wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
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HLAH wrote:

I would lightly sand it down to clean wood and then finish with
traditional Bourne Seal. Maintain with a water based acrylic polish.
They (ICI or whoever owned the brand) used to make a Bourne Seal

Cuprinol. Still called Bourne Seal. Or Original Bourne Seal.

branded one but there seems no trace of it now. There must be an
equivalent out there.

No no, you misunderstand, I meant that they used to do a water based
polish that was suitable as a maintenance polish after you had
finished with the Bourne Seal.

Sorry! Most water pased emulsion polishes are much the same, depends on
the solids content.

Now I come to think of it was called "Bourne Shine", haven't seen it
anywhere for a while so I use Johnson's Klear Floor Shine as a cheap
easy to source alternative, looks just as good but maybe not as wear
resisting.

ISTR that Klear is only about 15% solids. Really good stuff is 25%.


You are most likely correct, Bourne Shine was quite milky in appearance
whilst Klear is, erm, clear :-)

H