Thank you all so much for responding to my previous topic- plumbing nearly done but that’s another story!!
I have a lovely exterior front door (probably oak) which has been neglected- it’s south east facing and the wood is very dry and weathered I saw in the UK there was a wood restorer which fed the wood and restored the grain.
The door is to be painted again but I understand that an oil based restorer like linseed can’t be painted?
Can anyone advise me if the have restored a door back from the dry! Is there a product or can I make a solution.
It’s too beautiful not to try and save, I look forward to your suggestions.
Hello Billy and all. The main structure of the door seems solid but some of the moulding profiles may need to be replaced.
I read that you can sand the wood down as to a point that the very dry wood looks like a tighter grain. The door is exceptionally thick.
Then you can feed the wood and the grain of the wood closes up. There a product on amazon UK which does this but they don’t send to Ireland where I live and its not on Amazon.fr and I haven’t seen anything like that in Bricomarche in Montendre although it is small.
So I just wondered if anyone else as restored a door like this. I understand if you use linseed oil that paint won’t cover it successfully. I have seen other doors of this style painted to match the shutters and I think it looks beautiful and brighter against the honey stone.
You can paint a oak door if you have used boiled linseed oil to rejuvenate it first, linseed oil is used as a primer for oil based paints as that is used to make the paint a lot of the time, it’s water based paint you should not use on top of linseed.
The link below explains it better than I can.
Would be very appropriate to use a traditional local colour and a ‘flat’ traditional paint Batiments France and Leroy Merlin have regional colour charts, one can also usually get that info from the mairie
Sometimes you can fool Amazon by finding an item, say, on the UK site, scroll down to shortly before the reviews and you’ll see a block of Amazon info.
Grab the product ID off there, usually it begins with B, and input it into the search bar of Amazon in the country you’d like the product to arrive in.
It’s amazing how many times the product will then retrieve when before no search would give it to you. You should then be able to order it where you want it an awful lot of the time.
A few caveats though. If the seller and shipper are not Amazon then if it’s a product being sold by a vendor from outside the EU, you are likely to get clobbered by VAT and possible duty (duty is only some types of items) but if so then La Poste or the courier Amazon selects will add their own 9-15 or so euros. If sold and delivered by Amazon that won’t happen you’ll just pay small.shipping.
Some products they won’t ship internationally due to shipping or customs complications or restrictions so you can be out of luck. Paint may come into such a category but it will depend on the commodity code the vendor is using. Same item can have a choice of commodity codes so you may be lucky or unlucky.
In general for diy and chemicalsAmazon.de is excellent and just ship cost no cross-border issues.
