Posted on 10/15/2021 2:04:53 PM PDT by knarf
Cuprinol
Well, that fence was untreated pine, and it stood magnificently for 16 years, but its best days are definitely behind it. I’ll be ripping it down and putting up a new one, single-sided, and then I use the flood oil stain on it, so it won’t go to waste… I just think 16 years deserves the ultimate procrastinateProcrastination award.
Makes me think of the commercial at the stairs for Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls... sealed with Thompsons water seal. THEY REBUILD THOSE STAIRS EVERY YEAR AFTER THE WEIGHT OF THE SNOW DURING WINTER!! lol
for future reference
OIL seeps in, it doesn't "disappear", but becomes part of the parent material ... wood.
Frequent oilings will tend to saturate the wood requiring less and less oiling.
An artificial sealer , either water based or petroleum (shellac, varnish, polyurethane, Thompson's rip off) , is superficial and disconnected from the wood.
It wears off, flakes off or just evaporates.
Old men want to preserve the wood they have (go ahead ... there ARE jokes in there), and young men are impatient.
Annual oilings that don't need to be "prepared" .. (scraping or other etcetera's) are a pleasant summer task.
Being pissed off because all the money we spent last year looks and acts like shit is un healthful.
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