This week’s case study is a deck with a view! It’s definitely worth putting a bit of time and money in to revive and protect it for years to come. This deck is built using IPE decking which is an extremely hard wood. This makes it more difficult for protective treatments to impregnate the wood. […]
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Case Studies are the perfect way of show casing all the products Owatrol has to offer.
Complete with before and after shots, the case studies really show you all the steps needed to have a fantastic finish.
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Silva Timber recently featured a great case study on their website showcasing their Western Red Cedar using Owatrol’s Solid Colour Stain. This was a really interesting project for a DIYer transforming an ugly air raid shelter into a beautiful garden building and I think you’ll agree that it looks amazing. Paul chose Western red Cedar […]
We recently received these pictures from Angela, an Owatrol customer delighted with the results she achieved in tackling a persistent damp problem in the porches of her Victorian holiday let properties. The damp was causing the paint in the porches to peel drastically and it looked very unsightly. She was recommended to mix some Owatrol […]
At Owatrol we are always delighted to work alongside other leading companies in our field to deliver outstanding quality and professional finish. Our products have recently helped to complete a project on the Welsh Ffestiniog heritage railway alongside products from Silva Timber, a provider of speciality wood products. The Ffestiniog Railway is the oldest independent […]
Owatrol products can be used for many different applications and today we’d like to share a great example of a very specific use for Textrol penetrating wood oil. For more information check out the original article on The Decking Network. Shou-sugi ban (otherwise known as burnt sugi boards) is a Japanese technique for creating unique […]
Using Prepdeck to strip, Net-Trol to clean & Textrol to protect your deck
Posted on in Before & After, Case Studies, For the Garden, Wood CareWe’re always grateful when customers send us photographs throughout their project using Owatrol. This week we’d like to share a deck renovated using three Owatrol solutions. The customer’s deck had a previous coating to remove first, before cleaning and retreating. Stripping your deck Owatrol has several products for stripping previous coatings from wood surfaces. This […]
We were recently signposted to this case study by Promain, a long time partner of ours and seller of Owatrol products. The customer was exasperated after using a well-known high street product on their decking every year only to find it always cracking and peeling after the winter. It clearly wasn’t doing what it said […]
An Owatrol Pro customer B Richardson Decorating recently completed a renovation of the exterior of a bungalow. The project included windows, doors, a garage door and upstands for a car port which included lots of rusted metal surfaces. He used Owatrol Deco to protect, prime and finish the surfaces in white and was very impressed […]
Over at Detailing World we stumbled across another happy Owatrol customer using Polytrol to restore a faded car bumper. They posted this picture to show Polytrol at work: Polytrol is a colour restorer for plastics, GRPs, gelcoats, metals and other surfaces. It restores the original look and feel to the surface and dries to a […]
We were contacted recently by Phil, who needed some help restoring his GRP garage door. He wasn’t sure which product to use so he got in touch and asked! We recommended Polytrol as it revives and restores the colour of faded surfaces – it’s perfect for use on fibreglass as well as many other surfaces […]