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White Oak doors - maintaining "light" colour
New doors fitted.
Howdens "linear oak" internal and a front door. Varnished the outside face of the external door with their suggested Sadolin Clearcote satin but as expected the "white" colour has gone a deep golden colour. Now the lady of the house keeps on saying she "hates" that brown/yellow colour the existing doors have gone and blames it on the danish oil I treated them with 8+ or more years ago! As I pointed out, the completely un-treated skirting boards are even darker, it's what wood does. Apparently "the doors on Coronation street are light" LOL Howdens say their doors are not suitable for wax/oil treatment as it doesn't fully seal the doors and they need to be varnished as soon as possible.. Apart from one solution I read ontheline of adding white dye to the varninsh before application is there any chance of magically preventing white/light oak from darkening? I did read that water based clear varnish has a reduced darkening effect compared to solvent varnish but I fail to see how it's possible to keep them "light" either permanently or for any length of time. Cheers Pete |
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