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Title: Furniture
Post by: rosebud on July 28, 2006, 21:54:40
Hello Folks, can anyone help out here , how can i remove a waterstain from an oak dining room chair please. Cheers Rosebud.
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: Doris_Pinks on July 28, 2006, 22:47:58
sorry can't help you Rosebud, but I managed to remove red wine stains (a whole glassfull) from my Mum's cream carpet via google last night! Maybe try there?
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: lorna on July 28, 2006, 23:02:06
Mary I will watch with interest. When decorating my dining room I stupidly put the hot wallpaper steamer on the top of my organ. What a mess!!
Lorna
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: Doris_Pinks on July 28, 2006, 23:14:28
Quote from: lorna on July 28, 2006, 23:02:06
When decorating my dining room I stupidly put the hot wallpaper steamer on the top of my organ.
LORNA! :o  Reminds me of a joke I must put in the watershed! ;D  ahem  :-[
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: Roy Bham UK on July 28, 2006, 23:28:48
Hi Mary, when I worked in the furniture trade many years ago ::)  I used to love watching our French polisher do her stuff, she was amazing removing scratches and stains from delicate surfaces like burr walnut veneers and they just disappeared. :)

I seem to remember that she used to place a hot iron (no steam irons then) on the water stain with a piece of brown paper between the iron and the wood surface to draw out the moisture (I presume) then lightly sand it and stain, it was a long time ago so please only try this as a last resort. :o ;D

Or you could try this…

http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/ezine/archive/130/qapop3.html
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: lorna on July 28, 2006, 23:29:46
DP. Now Now!!! Maybe I should have worded that differently. Just hope to God that Lish doesn't read it cos she is bound to make something of it :o
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: Hyacinth on July 29, 2006, 08:19:07
 ::)

;D
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: rosebud on July 29, 2006, 23:29:59
Thank you Roy.
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: Val on July 30, 2006, 13:07:25
Quote from: lorna on July 28, 2006, 23:02:06
Mary I will watch with interest. When decorating my dining room I stupidly put the hot wallpaper steamer on the top of my organ. What a mess!!
Lorna


Ouch.
Title: Re: Furniture
Post by: Hyacinth on July 30, 2006, 14:01:01
So, Mary......problem solved?

I used to make a paste of bi-carb I think & gently work round from the inside of the marking, out? But then I had to re-stain the patch to get the colour right. Used boiled linseed oil + colour, something like that? (future prob. then solved by painting with colourless polyeurothene(sp?).....matt.....life TOO short to bother with spill stains - Lish