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How is playground wood treated?
The equipment in your picture may be coated with a couple coats of an oil-based, penetrating stain. Or it may be just bare wood. Cedar and redwood, for example, stand up to weather very well on their ...
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How is playground wood treated?
Much construction of playground equipment uses pressure-treated softwood (wood from conifer trees).
Current treatment of choice is ACQ (alkaline copper quaternary) but there is also CA (copper azole), ...
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How can I achieve a raw, unfinished look to my project while protecting it from water and physical abuse?
Let me shortly explain my background on this topic. I completely sympathize with your desire to keep the natural wood look and color in wood projects. In my experience most woodworkers love the ...
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How can I remove water damage from my improperly stored slab?
Usually with any stain of this sort removing the surface should reveal pristine wood.
Normally you won't need to go down that far since neither watery nor oily things penetrate very deeply on long-...
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Leaving counterbore holes unfinished on exterior projects
You might wait until its pretty dry, and use some exterior caulk. You can fill hold B, and seal around the bottom of the stud on top of hole A.
Not sure what this is for, but yes, over time moisture ...
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Appropriate Lacquer to resist salt water
Check out "spar varnish". This is formulated for use in marine envirouments (a spar is a wooden member supporting sails such as masts and booms). These, at least traditionally, are oil based. Oils not ...
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Should I seal my bed slats, and if yes, with what?
He thinks that the bed slats might warp if I don't use a sealer.
A 'sealer' won't make much or any difference to this once the slats are fixed in place and in use.
I use quotes above because the ...
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Exterior Plywood that looks relatively nice
Converting my Comments above into an Answer as per a request.
I was told (Baltic) Birch, but I assume that would need to be sealed.
Although it's not sold to be used outdoors, if there'd be no ...
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How to Protect melamine panel dining table from water and wear
As the Comment from @JanSpurny says, melamine IS the protection. If you think about it, if this is sold as tabletop material it should already be suitable for this application. As the PDF you linked ...
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Finish for MDF Worktable
Get a piece of Masonite hardboard of the same size and tack it in place (shiny side up). This will give you a smooth surface which, while not permanent, is much more durable than the MDF. It will ...
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Waterproofing Wood With Left Over Polyurethane (Aesthetics irrelevant to project)
Interior varnish used outdoors will certainly work to protect wood in the short term, but I don't think it's the right way to go here.
One reason is that a film finish like varnish will tend to ...
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Should I use Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to remove pencil marks from unfinished wood?
I don't know if it's okay to use Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to remove all the pencil marks on the bed slats since it uses water. And I always hear water shouldn't be used on wood.
It's perfectly OK to ...
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Should I use Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to remove pencil marks from unfinished wood?
Acetone is my go to for removing pencil marks - I'm not sure why you're having trouble with it. Perhaps the builder has left very heavy/deep marks?
Water is fine to use on wood - I wouldn't leave it ...
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Protecting wooden plant pot from water damage
Would a high-duty varnish (e.g., spar varnish) be a good choice?
In theory yes. In a thick enough coating (numerous full-strength coats) with no voids or pinholes, a varnish like this is essentially ...
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Leaving counterbore holes unfinished on exterior projects
On top of other concerns given in comments and answers like inevitable rot I would be concerned about your winter climate.
I would be more worried about something like ice forming in those area and ...
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How to finish a wooden ironing board?
I'm wondering whether I should apply a finish to the wood.
Great question! I think the best place to start is with what other people have done. I did a little searching and found a few examples of ...
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Is wood glue a good sealer to prevent water/moisture leakage?
Is wood glue adequate to achieve goal?
There are different types of wood glue with varying degrees of water resistance. I suppose that if you coat the substrate with TiteBond III you’d add some water ...
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Sealing plywood from moisture completely - for use as damp-reptile habitat
It may be a little expensive depending on how much you need, but the phenolic-impregnated WebbWood materials (webbwood.com) may work for you. When it is being made, all the moisture is removed using a ...
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Should I seal my bed slats, and if yes, with what?
I'm trying to picture a situation where you would see the slats in an assembled bed. Is this a bunk bed?
I've made several beds and have never sealed the slats. If there's concern such as incomplete ...
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Should I use Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to remove pencil marks from unfinished wood?
I would like to add that as a comment but rep thing did not allow me (at least; for the moment).
I would try an regular erase first as mmathis said. Be aware that some erasers work better (depending ...
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Appropriate Lacquer to resist salt water
You want a film finish for this and you have a few options here. The main two are varnish and lacquer, the others being epoxy and a pour-on finish as intended for bar tops.
Epoxy I think you'll want ...
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Protecting wooden plant pot from water damage
You could look into using cedar fence planks, which are usually readily available in nominal sizes in your home center garden department. Much more rot resistant than pine.
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Is it necessary to cover all veneered particle board ends?
No, it's not needed. You can do this because you want to (for whatever reasons, even if only for aesthetics) but it's absolutely not a requirement.
Waterproofing seems to be legit case.
Only ...
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Finish for MDF Worktable
It's inside permanently but it should survive the occasional Oil/Water spill.
While the suggestion from @WhatRoughBeast in his Answer is a good one for the top (I've gone with sacrificial hardboard ...
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Proper way to re-oil a wood swim deck?
First off well done in recognising that the finish needs to be refreshed now, and not putting it off for longer and have the surface weather further (which isn't likely to result in damage but the ...
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Finish for a soap mould?
From images available online soap moulds are not finished.
If exposed to liquid mixture wood will not absorb more soap after first time so no need to seal for that reason, and exposure to water is not ...
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