Want your wooden garden furniture to regain its shine?
It is true that wooden furniture that is left outside is quickly damaged by bad weather.
It ends up blackening or turning gray... But no need to invest in a Kärcher to strip the wood!
Fortunately, my handyman grandfather gave me his secret recipe for sobering up wood and restoring its shine.
To refurbish wood and protect it, the trick is to treat it with soda ash and linseed oil . Watch:
- sodium percarbonate
- linseed oil
- white vinegar
- wide brush (or whitewash brush)
- brush with hard fibers (coconut for example)
1. In a bucket, pour 1 part percarbonate to 10 parts warm water.
2. Mix well.
3. Apply this mixture to the wood with the brush.
4. Wait 20 minutes for the product to work.
5. Then scrub the wood with the hard brush.
6. Rinse thoroughly with water.
7. Wait for the wood to dry.
8. Now mix equal parts vinegar and water.
9. Apply this mixture to the wood with a damp cloth.
10. Apply linseed oil to the wood with another cloth.
There you go, thanks to your homemade wood sore, your garden furniture is like new :-)
Easy, fast and efficient, right?
No more traces of moss, lichen, fungi, greasy stains or tannin build-up!
Not only is the wood polished, but this natural treatment will now protect the wood from external aggressions.
It will therefore be well maintained and will last longer.
This natural treatment is very effective in rejuvenating the wood while being natural.
And you don't need to use bleach or buy an expensive Kärcher to have an equally effective result.
Be aware that the vinegar treatment neutralizes the wood.
This trick works just as well for wooden garden furniture as for a wooden outdoor table, a terrace, a fence or even cladding.
You can replace the sodium percarbonate with soda crystals.
In this case, the proportion to respect is 2 volumes of soda crystals for 10 volumes of lukewarm water.
Note that soda ash will whiten the wood more than soda ash.
