We’re all starting to believe now that summer really just might be on its way! With the bank holiday weekend just around the corner we’ve got an extra day to relax (or get some jobs done) in the garden. Now is the perfect time to get the garden looking great! Follow our guide to figure […]
Wood Care: Page 13
With such a wide variety of wood care products; from strippers to cleaners and finishings to paints, we’re confident Owatrol will have the perfect product for your next project.
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Owatrol Wood Stripping Guide: Stripping Your Decking
Posted on in For the Garden, How To Guides, Wood CareIn all cases, we’d recommend trying a sample to test for the touch time before embarking on the whole job. This means working out how long it is going to take for the coatings to lift. Stripping wood oils from decking If your wood is coated with wood oils, whether that be teak oil, linseed […]
Exterior Solutions use Aquatrol for teak decking
Posted on in Case Studies, Expert Opinions, For the Garden, Wood CareThis post has been written by Exterior Solutions Ltd. who use Owatrol products on many of their timber projects. Check out their bio and link to their website at the bottom of the post for more information. Exterior Solutions Ltd has been using Owatrol products for many years due to the impressive results that can […]
We’re so excited to be launching our brand new product Shed and Fence Paint! We’ve been keeping it under wraps through development but now it’s here and ready to buy direct from Owatrol! What is Shed & Fence paint? Shed and Fence Paint is a long lasting, high performance opaque wood finish. It is suitable for […]
Garden Furniture protected with Solid Colour Stain
Posted on in Case Studies, For the Garden, Wood CareThese great before and after shots show another way to use Solid Colour Stain. In this case, the customer has chosen Fairest Ivory. First they used our solvent free paint remover, Dilunett, to strip the old coating and then neutralised with Net-Trol. After leaving the furniture for a week to dry out completely, they then applied […]
We’re super excited to be launching 3 new products, all available direct from us! To celebrate their launch we’re offering our email subscribers an exclusive offer! If you’re not signed up yet and you’d like to be, the form is at the bottom of this page. Introducing… Textrol HES is a one-coat, penetrating oil finish […]
Composite Deck revived with Prepdeck & Compoxell (formally Compo-care)
Posted on in Case Studies, For the Garden, Wood CareAn Owatrol customer has sent us these pictures showing the impressive results that can be achieved with Owatrol solutions. This customer has a composite deck around their swimming pool. It had previously been treated with wood stains and was looking pretty ropey. The first step Firstly the customer had to remove the previous stains and this […]
Finnish customer’s river boat the envy of his friends with D1 & D2
Posted on in Case Studies, Marine, Wood CareA Finnish Owatrol customer, Jukka Kylmälä, has sent us some great photographs of a project he recently completed using Deks Olje D1 saturating wood oil and Deks Olje D2 high gloss varnish which are both perfect for use in marine wood care applications. His salmon-fishing river boat was in need of some protection. Jukka chose Owatrol solutions […]
We had our great new Owatrol Wood Care Solutions How to Guide produced recently and we have been featuring expanded how-to guides based on it in our news section. Here you can find all of the how-to guides in one place! How to remove mill glaze This how-to guide walks you step-by-step through the process […]
For the last in our wood care solutions series, we are focusing on a water-based wood treatment. Some people prefer to use a water-based finish rather than an oil-based finish as they are very environmentally-friendly. With Owatrol’s Aquadecks you don’t need to compromise on finish to use a water-based product. How to finish new softwood […]









