Hello All .. hope you can help. I stained a new (I'm pretty sure it's pine) garden gate with a medium brown wood stain. I have to re-do it every two years because the knots tend to bleed. I scrape off the dried sap first. Since it needs doing again, I'm thinking of rubbing down the knotted areas and applying a few coats of knotting solution before I stain it again. I'm using black this time. My problem is that I don't know if the knotting solution will stop the stain from setting in the wood. Any comments would help a lot. Thanks in advance.
Treating knots on a pine garden gate
- Thread starter SuePH
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You might get lucky with 2 or more coats of knotting. I find that tbh, knotting isn't as good as it used to be and that zinsser BIN x 2 coats is better but being white, probably won't be suitable under a stain unless you are putting on several coats of the black which may eventually cover it
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There are so many, SuePH...if you want to see the grain of the wood something like this might meet your needs:
Sikkens Cetol HLS Plus Ebony 020
Cetol HLS Plus is a low build, solvent-borne, semi-transparent wood stain for use on exterior softwood and hardwood. Protects against mould & algae. Colour Ebony 020.
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