Captain Coochie
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Grey Teak , Oil or Varnish ?
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richardabeattie
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This topic has been done to death. Nothing works for long so it's up to you whether you treat the teak every few months or leave it grey. What you treat it with - if anything - is the secondary question.
FullCircle
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Jason - fourth option. Only wash it with Wessex Chemicals Teak Cleaner, then it stays brown for 1/2 season.
No messy oils, no peeling varnish.
No messy oils, no peeling varnish.
ebbtide
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"Nothing works for long"
NOT true, one remedy has already been posted.
I prefer sanding until colour returns and apply Sikkens satin fiinish. It lasts for months and is SO easy to maintain. And you'll never have to take it back again!
NOT true, one remedy has already been posted.
I prefer sanding until colour returns and apply Sikkens satin fiinish. It lasts for months and is SO easy to maintain. And you'll never have to take it back again!
Captain Coochie
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What , take it back to the shop and say it only worked for a few months /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I think the reasons oil and varnish dont work is because people dont stay on top of them ( myself included ) Be nice to hear from people that do keep on top of it and what it takes to do so .
Grey looks better than this ?
I think the reasons oil and varnish dont work is because people dont stay on top of them ( myself included ) Be nice to hear from people that do keep on top of it and what it takes to do so .
Grey looks better than this ?
VicS
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I've tried those three alternatives and several others as well
Well maintained varnish looks the best. Tatty flaking varnish looks the worst.
Nothing else is entirely satisfactory either.
The next thing I am going to try is Sikens Cetol but I have not decided whether to use the teak or colourless one.
There have been some good reports on here
Well maintained varnish looks the best. Tatty flaking varnish looks the worst.
Nothing else is entirely satisfactory either.
The next thing I am going to try is Sikens Cetol but I have not decided whether to use the teak or colourless one.
There have been some good reports on here
castaway
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I use Aussi Endeavour......
Its is an oil type treatment, with a primer type coat then finished off with a finishing coat or two.
I lasts about 1/2 a season but the the key point is that it is so easy to put on and keep up.
So a week or so before launching I run the orbital sander around the toe rails and other bits ( takes an hour or so) then an hour or so with a brush or well wetted rag.
Quite honestly if I bothered to give it a quick wipe over now and again it would never need to be sanded at all.
Good stuff and smells of eucaliptus !
Nick
Its is an oil type treatment, with a primer type coat then finished off with a finishing coat or two.
I lasts about 1/2 a season but the the key point is that it is so easy to put on and keep up.
So a week or so before launching I run the orbital sander around the toe rails and other bits ( takes an hour or so) then an hour or so with a brush or well wetted rag.
Quite honestly if I bothered to give it a quick wipe over now and again it would never need to be sanded at all.
Good stuff and smells of eucaliptus !
Nick
Koeketiene
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Grey looks better than this ?
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It's nice to look at, but I wouldn't want it on my boat.
Can you imagine the time that would go into getting Guapa's 30-odd sq/m to look like that. Let alone to keep it looking like that.
I've got a boat to sail, not as a never ending DIY project.
Grey looks better than this ?
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It's nice to look at, but I wouldn't want it on my boat.
Can you imagine the time that would go into getting Guapa's 30-odd sq/m to look like that. Let alone to keep it looking like that.
I've got a boat to sail, not as a never ending DIY project.
Captain Coochie
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But if someone was do it for you and keep on top of it while your not there would you like it ? Thats not an offer by the way , i cant keep up with two grabrails and a nav mast /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Koeketiene
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Not really - a bit too 'blue blazer' for my taste.
It looks very nice on that motorboat, but I don't think it would work on a yacht.
It looks very nice on that motorboat, but I don't think it would work on a yacht.
Cotillion
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Grey looks better than this ?
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No! But God help anyone who gets it wet!
Grey looks better than this ?
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No! But God help anyone who gets it wet!
Poignard
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Grey looks better than this ?
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Er, yes. It's a bit, well, blingy./forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Reminds me of the elderly, and ultra-conservative, Managing Director of a firm I used to work for in Hong Kong. He wrote to Rolls-Royce to complain that the dashboard on the new car he had shipped out to him was so highly polished that it looked like plastic.
Grey looks better than this ?
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Er, yes. It's a bit, well, blingy./forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Reminds me of the elderly, and ultra-conservative, Managing Director of a firm I used to work for in Hong Kong. He wrote to Rolls-Royce to complain that the dashboard on the new car he had shipped out to him was so highly polished that it looked like plastic.
Pye_End
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Your question is 'what looks best'. Whilst some treatments are excellent this is not the same question as 'what is practical and looks reasonably decent'.
My answer to your poll was to answer your question, but not one that I necessarily go for in practice.
Was this your intention?
My answer to your poll was to answer your question, but not one that I necessarily go for in practice.
Was this your intention?
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We have used Semco for many years. Use their cleaner product to start after that top up twice a year.
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Captain Coochie
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My answer to your poll was to answer your question, but not one that I necessarily go for in practice.
Was this your intention?
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Yes that was my intention but as always happens with internet forums no one answers it they just argue the toss /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I admit i knew there was going to be people saying why and what but the question was what looks best .
Lets put it this way , if there was a company that could get your boat back to clean timber and put 12 coats of varnish on it an then would visit once a month while your not there and make sure it was ok and would also be to hand everytime you dinked it . All for free , would you then want the varnish ?
My answer to your poll was to answer your question, but not one that I necessarily go for in practice.
Was this your intention?
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Yes that was my intention but as always happens with internet forums no one answers it they just argue the toss /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I admit i knew there was going to be people saying why and what but the question was what looks best .
Lets put it this way , if there was a company that could get your boat back to clean timber and put 12 coats of varnish on it an then would visit once a month while your not there and make sure it was ok and would also be to hand everytime you dinked it . All for free , would you then want the varnish ?
Captain Coochie
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Er, yes. It's a bit, well, blingy.
Reminds me of the elderly, and ultra-conservative, Managing Director of a firm I used to work for in Hong Kong. He wrote to Rolls-Royce to complain that the dashboard on the new car he had shipped out to him was so highly polished that it looked like plastic.
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I know a decorator that can do that but he is so fickle about his finish he does my head in /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Just when you think its there he rubs it down again and it's another £200 ...... Makes my work look good though /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Er, yes. It's a bit, well, blingy.
Reminds me of the elderly, and ultra-conservative, Managing Director of a firm I used to work for in Hong Kong. He wrote to Rolls-Royce to complain that the dashboard on the new car he had shipped out to him was so highly polished that it looked like plastic.
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I know a decorator that can do that but he is so fickle about his finish he does my head in /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Just when you think its there he rubs it down again and it's another £200 ...... Makes my work look good though /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
FullCircle
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I can confirm that the quality car manufacturers all backed off from wood perfection bacause, as you say, it didnt look real anymore. It was the ultimate compliment to Timberlex, who made the plastic photograph of wood on a plastic substrate, that you see on so many middle of the road cars.
Poignard
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This topic also reminds me of an editorial in the Daily Telegraph, written many years ago by the late William Deedes.
He claimed that you could instantly distinguish an officer from an n.c.o. by looking at his shoes. The n.c.o.'s shoes would be over-polished whereas the officer's would have a discreet gleam. I think Deede's point was that the high polish indicated vulgarity but the subdued gleam represented gentlemanly discretion and understatement.
Or maybe it was simply due to the officer having someone to polish his shoes who didn't want to do it, and therefore wouldn't put much effort into the job?
He claimed that you could instantly distinguish an officer from an n.c.o. by looking at his shoes. The n.c.o.'s shoes would be over-polished whereas the officer's would have a discreet gleam. I think Deede's point was that the high polish indicated vulgarity but the subdued gleam represented gentlemanly discretion and understatement.
Or maybe it was simply due to the officer having someone to polish his shoes who didn't want to do it, and therefore wouldn't put much effort into the job?
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If you use Sikkens Cetol then use clear as it is easier to touch up.
What's the point of a poll on this one.....there are about 100 opinions!!!!?
What's the point of a poll on this one.....there are about 100 opinions!!!!?
VicS
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If you use Sikkens Cetol then use clear
[/ QUOTE ] Thanks for that advice
If you use Sikkens Cetol then use clear
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