Help hardwood outdoor table
Please help a newbie. Ive looked around for ideas to seal/finnish an outdoor table and benchseats. Its around 18mths old and was made using green hardwoods, mainly ironbark and blackbutt. It was painted with an opaque sealer/stain maybe a wattyl product. As it dries and shrinks the gaps have appeared as expected along with lots of cracks and the nail fillings are white. Its been outside uncovered mostly and so I thought it needed an oil to feed the wood. Might this stop the cracks getting worse while it dries or should we varnish/polyurethane the table to stop it drying anymore. The danish oil mixtures in one thread seem ok: linseed oil/turps/polyurethane? Please give any advice you think could help.
Thanks in advance.
G
Sealer for outdoors..............
I have used a product called Penetrol made by fullers i think,so as long as you maintain it by ragging it over once a year with the same product it will last forever.I did some church doors many years ago and on the last visit back to SA it was still like the day i did it and it is exposed to the weather so that is some endorsement for the product,it can also be used in enamel paint to help adhere and also paint it direct on galv iron as a primer to paint over........Hope this helps you in some way.
Reguards Tasman