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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian101 on September 08, 2014, 05:02:15 pm

Title: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Ian101 on September 08, 2014, 05:02:15 pm: Customer gave me a set of wooden table and chairs ... teak apparently but pretty sure its not the real thing ..

He power washed them about 6 months ago and put them to 1 side without re oiling them.

Photos attached show the small chair after about 4 coats of cheapo B and Q teak oil ... think its slowly getting there ... second photo shows how the set currently looks.

Had a look on you tube and came across video on netrol which seems to clean them up ok then he went on to treat them with textrol which tbh IMHO looks poor (not that im an expert of course) ... anything else you can recommend ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-5twJwbGIY

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1410192195_11.jpg)

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1410192216_111.jpg)
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Roger Oakley on September 08, 2014, 10:27:21 pm: Strip then off and start again. The wood is not clean enough IMO
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Simon@Pristine Pathways on September 08, 2014, 10:32:07 pm: Patio looks good! ;D

Emailed your customer, should be relaying it next week.
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Ian101 on September 08, 2014, 10:36:04 pm: Quote from: Roger Oakley on September 08, 2014, 10:27:21 pm
Strip then off and start again.

Hi Roger .. strip off the one ive done already or the rest of them that have only been pressure washed ?
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Ian101 on September 08, 2014, 10:37:05 pm: Quote from: Simon@Pristine Pathways on September 08, 2014, 10:32:07 pm
Patio looks good! ;D

Emailed your customer, should be relaying it next week.

yeah some top guy off the Wirral did it for me.

lemme me know when ur up at James gaff
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Ian101 on September 08, 2014, 10:38:13 pm: Quote from: Roger Oakley on September 08, 2014, 10:27:21 pm
Strip then off and start again. The wood is not clean enough IMO

got it now
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Roger Oakley on September 08, 2014, 10:38:54 pm: I"d start again, strip the oiling off you have done and do the same to the rest of the chairs oiled or not. Then Brighten, allow to dry, hand sand then re-oil with a decent oil not the B&Q rubbish.
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Ian101 on September 08, 2014, 10:40:45 pm: Quote from: Roger Oakley on September 08, 2014, 10:38:54 pm
I"d start again, strip the oiling off you have done and do the same to the rest of the chairs oiled or not. Then Brighten, allow to dry, hand sand then re-oil with a decent oil not the B&Q rubbish.

can u suggest a product to strip the oil off please
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Roger Oakley on September 08, 2014, 10:50:45 pm: Prep-Deck to strip & Netrol to Brighten the wood afterwards. You HAVE to brighten after stripping esp hardwoods.
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Ian101 on September 08, 2014, 11:26:38 pm: many thanks Roger !
Title: Re: Cleaning some free garden furniture
Post by: Roger Oakley on September 09, 2014, 07:00:53 am: Also they might not be Teak but Iroko another hardwood but darker, until there cleaned properly it can be hard to tell.