Tim Good
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For those experience wood workers, would it be beneficial to use cellulose sealer prior to putting down satin Epifanes on my cabin sole which is solid teak?
Varnishing Interior - sealer?
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Stemar
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Another vote for le Tonkinois. You have to get the boards back to bare wood, but it doesn't flake like varnish if it gets damaged - just rub it down and add a few coats. I did the stairs in my last home and it survived a hoard of teenagers for years.
Concerto
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Cellulose Sanding Sealer is relatively soft and is intended to fill very minor indentations or raised grain. The surface has to be sanded smooth before applying a top coat. It is not intended on hard wearing surfaces like a floor.
I use Le Tonkinoise for all my external varnish, but for the floor I use an acrylic hard wearing floor varnish intended for a sports hall floor.
I use Le Tonkinoise for all my external varnish, but for the floor I use an acrylic hard wearing floor varnish intended for a sports hall floor.
Tim Good
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Hmm yes that makes sense. May I ask what product specifically for sports hall floors?
Concerto
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It was a Morrells product and off hand I cannot remember the number.
Look at my presentation on interior woodwork renovation for what I did to my floor boards.
https://wiki.westerly-owners.co.uk/images/2/25/Interior_Woodwork_Concerto_PowerPoint.pdf
Sandy
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I had a long chat with Brian at the Southampton Boat Show about use on the sole, as he also sells Le Tonkinois Parquets for floors. His comment was a yacht floor does not have a lot of foot fall, and thinking about it he is quite right.
Knowing @Tim Good is a member of the Ocean Cruising Club and spends considerable time onboard I still think would be suitable.
Spirit (of Glenans)
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He would do well to consider the size of a yacht "floor" in comparison to that of a large room or hall. While the footfall on a yacht may be small, its use is quite concentrated, everyone who comes aboard will walk on pretty much every square inch of it.
In regard to the substantive question. It is considered customary, when using varnish, to initially apply a heavily diluted coat and then sand down before applying progressively less thinned coats
Sumara of Weymouth
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If you decide to skip the sealer and go for building up coats of varnish with reducing amounts of thinner (or Owatrol), then I would recommend you use gloss varnish until the last coat. The satin varnish is very slightly cloudy and it will begin to obscure the lovely wood if you apply too many coats.
Daydream believer
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Sadolins PV67. I used to use it on laboratory benches, Bar tops etc. 6-7 years ago I stripped, stained with Rustins stain & coated 14 of the sailing club's tables with 2 coats PV67. Still no scratches evident & a sailing club gives it hard use , especially from the children.
Excellent for floors. My own Oak spiral staircase had 2 coats when I built the house in 2000 & another 2 coats just before covid. Excellent product.