Help me try and remove water marks from varnished wood.

[moody]

I've a hardwood box with a marquetry vaneer thats got a few splash marks from some rain.

What's the best way to try and lift off the marks?

 

[campanula]

moody - Go to Mackays and get the Liberon ring remover. There are cheaper ones available too but I like the Liberon brand.

 

[moody]

moody - Go to Mackays and get the Liberon ring remover. There are cheaper ones available too but I like the Liberon brand.

someone told me make a paste out of bicarb and water and rub over with cloth, dry then rewax?

 

[campanula]

someone told me make a paste out of bicarb and water and rub over with cloth, dry then rewax?

The problem is the varnish, Moody. You need something which won't abrade the surface. You could try using bicarbonate of soda - if the damage is just water marks (from rain or such) then it should work well, If the marks are, as is often the case, resulting from tea and coffee cups, the heat tends to create more lasting damage...where you have to remove the very topmost layer of varnish. Always best to try the least invasive methods first...and if it is just the white residues left from water damage, it is much easier to remedy.

 

[moody]

The problem is the varnish, Moody. You need something which won't abrade the surface. You could try using bicarbonate of soda - if the damage is just water marks (from rain or such) then it should work well, If the marks are, as is often the case, resulting from tea and coffee cups, the heat tends to create more lasting damage...where you have to remove the very topmost layer of varnish. Always best to try the least invasive methods first...and if it is just the white residues left from water damage, it is much easier to remedy.

it's just from a few splashes of rain, it's the top of my cigar box ;-)

 

[ska invita]

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[campanula]

O right moody- if its just little whitish watermarks, you can use a few things...Vaseline, is OK. I used to work in an antique shop where the owner was a bit cheap and moaned on about spendy beeswax but petroleum jelly made the (horrible) stripped pine shit (it was the 70s.) look surprisngly glossy...which, considering most of it was really rubbish wood dunked in caustic tanks, was a result.