Teak oil, first use

[pe2dave]

An item for an outside garage (workshop).
Typical banana wood, 3x1. Just wanted to protect it from damp / swelling.

First use, teak oil.
Surprised how thin it was, and thinned it a fraction more.
Applied with 'sponge brush' (if you know what I mean.
Soaking in within ten minutes, wiped off with "lint free....", OK, kitchen roll.
Used very little, I was surprised.

Highly likely to apply a second coat, with care around halving joints.

Initially quite impressed. See how it looks in February!

 

[Cabinetman]

Hi Dave, though I’ve never used it, I suspect it’s one of the oils that can self-ignite particularly on the rags/kitchen towel. Just didn’t want you to go outside and find you had a fire on your hands. Ian

 

[pe2dave]

Hi Dave, though I’ve never used it, I suspect it’s one of the oils that can self-ignite particularly on the rags/kitchen towel. Just didn’t want you to go outside and find you had a fire on your hands. Ian

Yes - sadly, Amazon have no such warning on the tin? Had to get it from the German supplier site!
No such experience, but hoping Nov temperatures will minimise such risks. Brushes washed, kitchen towel
wetted prior to disposal.

 

[Cabinetman]

Well done, it happened to my intendeds daughter on a hot day outside in the US, luckily she was there at the time-hadn’t read the label!

 

[bourbon]

when I use white spirits, turps, Meths or anything flammable on a rag/paper towel. I take it outside in a safe place and set fire to it. My theory is, it will only burn once, and I want to be there when it does.

 

[pe2dave]

when I use white spirits, turps, Meths or anything flammable on a rag/paper towel. I take it outside in a safe place and set fire to it. My theory is, it will only burn once, and I want to be there when it does.

Sound logic

 

[Phil Pascoe]

when I use white spirits, turps, Meths or anything flammable on a rag/paper towel. I take it outside in a safe place and set fire to it. My theory is, it will only burn once, and I want to be there when it does.

I started to post the same thing but a glitch took me elsewhere. My theory precisely.

 

[redhunter350]

We purchased some new garden furniture earlier this year, gave it several coats of teak oil from a well known U.K. supplier— utterly useless! Looked great when done then it rained, a lot of rain, 3 weeks later all the oil had washed off, wood started to discolour very disappointed !
So set too cleaned it all off and redone it with Osmo oil, now still looks good despite several months of wind sun and rain lots of rain recently! Osmo do lots of specialised oils so asked their advice on which to use but up to now very pleased with the result.

 

[pe2dave]

Not sure how an oil can wash off, but hey ho, YMMV as the saying goes.
I do wonder what the items were coated in when you bought them.