Blooming Woodwork

petem

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Somebody asked me the other day whether 'blooming' woodwork can be fixed. To give you an example...

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A lot of 90's/00's boats seem to suffer from this, even Fairlines (:)).

Some (e.g. Jimmy the Builder) say that it's not worth the effort in getting it repaired and just live with it.

Can it be repaired by stripping back the lacquer? Could a French polisher fix it? Obviously if it only affected cabinet doors, as in my pic, they could be sent off for repair.

Pete
 
"Some say............." , this is getting like Top Gear:):)

Although I would be interested in if there is a a solution to this, we have some slight blooming on a couple of doors which I've put down to the previous owner not resolving a couple of water leaks and allowing humidity levels to rise , but could be being a bit damning with that. I do think the blooming is slowly coming out since we got her and sorted the leaks plus ran dehumidifiers through the winter but it would be nice if there was a proper wood working solution, maybe it will be strip and re lacquer ?
 
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I am pretty certain its in the lacquer,, it's a faint milky bloom apparent in some panels and doors. I sort of think it might be reducing naturally over time but realistically I'm not expecting it to completely disappear so having a plan ready ,as the subject has come up, is worthwhile following up.

Andy
 
Not sure that this will work, but I've had a similar issue on some furniture at home. I wiped on some Danish oil, only a few £s for a bottle from Toolstation, and that resolved the problem.
 
I suspect your furniture at home wasn't high gloss lacquer like this.

The high gloss lacquer is waterproof so any oil wouldn't be able to penetrate. The lacquer used will be a synthetic sprayed one rather a more natural French Polish. I suspect the only solution is to completely remove with stripper, sand, restore surface possibly even stain if faded then re-lacquer via spray gun. Easy enough on removable panels, much harder with fitted components.

Henry :)
 
I had a similar problem with the table on our last boat
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I used a chemical stripper to remove the old lacquer then re applied several coats of a hard wearing floor lacquer. It did need some gentle scraping in some areas. Luckily it did not have to match other woodwork. So it can be done but I would be inclined to get it done professionally though if you are going to match other woodwork
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petem said:
Somebody asked me the other day whether 'blooming' woodwork can be fixed. To give you an example...

41121872gallery_wm.jpg


A lot of 90's/00's boats seem to suffer from this, even Fairlines (:)).

Some (e.g. Jimmy the Builder) say that it's not worth the effort in getting it repaired and just live with it.

Can it be repaired by stripping back the lacquer? Could a French polisher fix it? Obviously if it only affected cabinet doors, as in my pic, they could be sent off for repair.

Pete
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Just resolved a blooming issue on our Fleming. Used T cut and 3M Coarse cut and the original finish came back perfectly. Simples. Gleaming and lovely.
 
Had the same issue on a 99 Princess V40. 13 panels in the end all replaced with new as they weren't able to strip the old panels successfully. New wood didn't match the old at first, match was miles off but steadily over a season it matured and matched really well. From memory the cost was about £5k + VAT all in incl removal and refitting of new.
This was through a company that does plenty of refit work here and in SoF although they had another outfit do the job for them.

I can dig out details if anyone needs.
 
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