Raised panel doors and yacht varnish tips for the weary.

[Inspector]

Wouldn't it be easier to put the lawnmower in a little shed rather than bury it?

Pete

 

[Bingy man]

I was just about to start staining when I opened the door, and one of the weatherboards remained with the storm guard strip

These will need to be remade in future
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Right, onto the staining of these doors.
Having to do something which wasn't so basic, I learned a lot as a first timer,
since I was looking for a dark appearance to hide the brown sealent to be used after staining,
and the fact the timbers had some weathering, which needed a bit of artistic work.

Firstly do it in good time during summer weather, as I found out to my disappointment,
The temporary screen (which ended up being not so temporary at all)
likely didn't help with drying,
Terrible idea it was as when it became stormy, the flappy plastic decided to stick,
which took a bit more Bob Rossing to sort

It was half alright before that, (pictured underneath before disaster)

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I ended up getting some string and making sure that wouldn't happen again,
which turned my screen into a kite for all of one second before dismantlization.

Not to say this would have went smoothly if above didn't happen,
Only so if the screen were well made and easy to place and unplace,
as one would find it easier to do the frame, not to mention,
being covered in stain after doing so,
It does one no favours in regards to using raking light from a lamp to actually see what one is doing.
A horrible sceanario I made for myself, and will have to revisit this next year.

Might as well mention some things which I was none the wiser about.
Rightly or wrongly
I liberally coated these doors with a rag using white spirit, and it was nearly
dry before applying a Sadolin original stain, thinned at a ratio of about
3 parts white spirit, to 2 parts stain.

The above picture before disaster, was what one could say is
a coat and a half.
This was because the consistency of the mix changed, and the colour was off between doors.
I should have divided the mix into two equal parts before starting.
The paint brush sticking was more noticeable than the colour change at the job,
quite evident here, so something needed to be done,
which added about an extra fortnight of drying time.
I got fed up with it, and started other jobs, and might have noticed the pressing issue of the plastic if I were not distracted.

Going back to the mix again, worth noting that three parts w/spirit, to two parts stain,
is about as light as one can go, in regards to running,
Lighter than this, and the white spirit moves the stain off the work (when vertical anyway)
Possibly I went a bit light on the stain, as I want brown but still obviously a timber appearance to match sealant, even though those upper panels below are a lovely colour, they don't match.

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Hopefully it'll be alright until next summer.

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A massive transformation- bet your fingers are bleeding after all that sanding and scraping