Kitchen worktop de-oiled

Followup on https://jansenendewaal.blogspot.com/2017/11/aanrechtblad-olien-kitchen-counter-oil.html

One of engineer Jansen’s less great decisions was to *not* wipe off any excess oil after oiling the kitchen worktop. It was so nice and shiny:

A few years later the punishment comes, as the excess oil transpires out of the wood and becomes a sticky goo, worse than chewing gum. Covering it with clingfilm makes things even worse, as scraping it off gets even more difficult. Your lord in heaven has been called a few names this morning.

All this to prepare for a new and shiny inox sink.

Scraping off the goo, and the clingfilm

Sort of de-oiled the worst part.

The Doors - study R (2)

This was the worst door. Broken. Eaten. But, work, polyurethane glue and some metal reinforcement can do a lot.

Basic construction is nice heavy planks, with thinner wood panels. Hole-and-pegs in the corners.

This door was varnished, stained, or whatever, with a dark brown stuff. Took that off where necessary for reconstruction, but left part of it in place because I do like the darker colour. You can use wood oil with a colour, but I don't have pigments for oil. So, all natural here. Some hidden edges still have some nasty green paint. Left that there for posterity.

Where there are a lot of holes from wood nibbling critters I have not spared the filler paste with fibre.

This one needed some reconstruction...

The Doors - the bathroom (1)

There are quite some nicely made old doors in this house. Real craftmanship, heavy wood. But, also: old, nibbled at. One even broken apart. Here's our bathroom door, one of the 5 doors that need(ed) work.

Apparently largely untreated, un-varnished, un-oiled, un-whatevered. Have I just sanded away the patina of two ages? Well, I won't try to sand away all old scratches and dents.

Who knows what these doors have witnessed. Life, death, sex, murder? They're more scratched at the lower half than above. Probably they were kicked or bumped into quite a few times during the ages.

Finished:

Work in progress:

Cave cupboards

The cupboards in the cave. As the plaster needed replacing this was the opportunity to do up these.

Of course, ansteystyle. What did they do? First they made the cupboards, mounted them on the floor and wall, no back or side panel where the walls are. And only then they plastered the cave walls. So, these cupboards were a few to 5 centimeters into the wall. The walls are curved. So, I now needed to take (saw) off some of the back of the cupboards to make them fit the newly plastered walls.

Sanded the woord (heavily, grain 50/80) to take off the stain that was on there. Then 120. Two tung oil treatments on the inside, 4 on the outside. Before the last two treatments grain 400. And lo! SHINE!

Aluminium tape between wood and walls, for protection.

Another job well done by engineer Jansen.

The folding bear chair

Nearly 25 years old. In the past these red cedar chairs were sort of protected with Weizonol conserveergrond, but that comes off in 25 years. It has survived quite well. Only the horizontal plank at the front needed some aluminium support, because some of the wood was really soft. And, the ends of the lower beam of the backrest needed some aluminium, because they too had become very soft, and could simply be sanded off.

The whole chair was disassembled (dissembled) into parts, that were all coarsely sanded, finely sanded, and very finely sanded. After four coats with tung wood oil and about a week's work I'm almost satisfied.

I'm very happy inox screws were used for the backrest and the seat itself. No rust!

It's sister we had to leave behind in Amersfoort, as it was completely rotten. It had spent many years at the bottom of the patio in Amsterdam, in the shade, and never properly dried up. Sad.

Kitchen counter oil

Sanded, more or less lightly.

First layer tung oil. Pity the shine vanishes the moment the wood has absorbed the oil. Only after many layers the shine stays.

What a pity, it did not "hold". Apparently the previous owner did not use oil but some teak varnish or something, not oil. Dickhead. Some heavy sanding to gt it all off is in order. Not a great job, this is iroco wood, and very tough.

This is the fourth(!) treatment. Not layer. Oil does not really build up in layers. It sinks into the wood. Another layer tomorrow.

And the sink was put in place first, only then the counter top was treated. Under the rim just silicone. Because, what you don't see does not matter. Sigh.

Shutters, mosquito screens and oil

Some people may think we're lazing in the pool all day, but at least for one of us that is not true. There are some shutters, screens and windows to do up. Not seen sandpaper or brush in at least ten years, so high time to sand off the old dry wood stain, and apply a nice Tung oil. (These are the windows and shutters of the kitchen, at the side of the house.)

Shiny!

 Now for the windows themselves..