Teak Furniture Restoration

Gentle Hands Restoration does teak furniture restoration in the Durham Region which includes Newcastle, Bowmanville, Courtice, Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Ajax, Pickering, Uxbridge and Port Perry.  We also do teak furniture restoration for Port Hope, Cobourg, Lindsay, Scarborough and surrounding areas.

Teak furniture has again become very popular.  In our opinion there are two options for refinishing teak furniture.

REFINISHING OLDER TEAK FURNITURE

Over the years even solid teak furniture can become water damaged, sun bleached, stained or a sticky gummy surface that is hard to clean.

First the teak furniture would be stripped carefully using chemicals, steelwool, brushes and rags.  Stripping is the most important part.  After it the furniture is completely stripped it would be neutralized with varsol.   Depending on the condition of the surface the table may have to be coloured with stain before the oiling process begins.  After the stain has dried we would oil the table with as much teak oil/danish oil as the table will absorb.  This process ususally takes a couple of weeks. 

This past year we have refinished a few teak tables.  With these tables we used a satin polyurethane varnish as our customers were looking for maintenance-free tables.  They were really happy with our work.