How to work out your touch time to strip garden furniture
Before you start stripping the entire area you should first perform a touch test (this is the same regardless of the stripper you are planning to use). To do this you apply to the stripper to a small area and leave it to work. After a period of time, you begin to scrub the edge to see if the coatings are lifting, if not leave it a little longer and try again.
In all cases, we’d recommend trying a sample to test for the touch time before embarking on the whole job.
Stripping paint and opaque finishes from garden furniture
To use it on your garden furniture first apply the the Dilunett, leave it to work and then rinse whilst scrubbing in the direction of the grain to remove the coating.
After using Dilunett you will need to neutralise the wood with Net-Trol.
Stripping wood oils from garden furniture
If your garden furniture is currently coated with wood oils such as teak oil or linseed oil then we would recommend that you strip them using Aquanett. It’s designed specifically for removing wood oils and it’s a gel formula so it’s easy to use on furniture and intricate detailing because it won’t run or sag.
You need to neutralise the wood with Net-Trol after stripping your garden furniture to prevent the stripper from remaining active in the wood and attempting to strip any future finishes you use on it!
Help! I have no idea what needs to be stripped from my garden furniture!
If you find that even after leaving the Dilunett for its full working time of 12 hours your coatings are still not lifting then we would suggest trying a sample of DSP 800. It’s a more powerful stripper which can even remove 2-pack paints but you don’t rinse it with water you have to use a scraper or scrubbing brush so it will be more onerous, particularly on intricate detailing.
Hopefully that’s given you some useful information about stripping your garden furniture.