Regular readers may think that they have seen this board before and they would be right. It is the weathering board of teak treatments that I have been using for long term tests of various teak oils and other treatments. I initialy put these samples on this board 5 years ago and since that time the samples have been left out to weather. I have to say that things have not changed that much since I bought you an update way back in January of last year and the findings that I came up with then still hold good. I have reapplied the treatments in accordance with the manufacturers recommendations once per year as written on the can or bottle and it has been a very interesting experience to see how they compare side by side. If you were to look at each one in isolation you can definitely see a difference from plain untreated teak but put them side by side and the difference is marked. Not only is the color different from sample to sample (I should add that the teak all came from the same log and was cut at the same time) but interestingly the grain is raised rather more on some than the others.
You can read the blog posting from a year ago by clicking here and the results as written then still hold up with no revision necessary.
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