Wash is not a term you would normally associate with furniture. Polish, sand, wax, paint, spray, etc etc. Wash usually denotes water and water and wood (making assumption here) are normally items that you want to keep far apart. Need more info here.
Ummm...not really John.... an antique piece of furniture that has set around for decades, should be washed with TSP to get the built up grime off, I've been told. Instruction using chalk paint says not necessary to do this......
Ok. Sorry about that. I had not associated the term wash with tsp. We have also used Murphys oil soap on pieces which I suppose could also be called washing. I guess it was just the term that struck me funny. I have spent most of my working life (40+ yrs) in the cabinet making and furniture business. I've applied or been responsible for applying 10s of thousands (maybe 100s by now) gallons of finishing materials. Wash for us usually meant an application technique as in whitewash. And I suppose that in some places a lot of water is going on wood in the form of water based finishes. We never found them to be effective or durable and when you have to warranty your work that counts. Main thing I was after was more info in order to answer. It's been a long time since I had anything to do with chalk paint so I may be off point here a little but I think there might be a couple points to be made. If you want good adhesion the wood must be clean. Tsp is good choice. It is possible washing refers to stripping the old finish which with chalk is not really necessary. Then it depends on whether you want the chalk paint to fully cover and the piece to just be painted or whether you are going to antique it some. We got into manufactured antiques quite a bit at one point. There one technique involved waxing parts of the product so that some of the paint would strip off easily exposing older finish below looking like an old worn piece of furniture. You might achieve the same effect by not cleaning the piece well and let some of the detritus on the surface provide you with poor adhesion in spots to help you strip it back. But if I were going to do that I would probably clean it first and apply a little wax here and there so it would come out like I wanted it to. Or dispense with the wax altogether and just use an orbital Sander to achieve the worn look. Hope this makes sense and is at least a little help.
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Hi Bev! Are you referring to a specific furniture post?
Wash is not a term you would normally associate with furniture. Polish, sand, wax, paint, spray, etc etc. Wash usually denotes water and water and wood (making assumption here) are normally items that you want to keep far apart. Need more info here.
If you're preparing to paint the furniture then you should clean it before you begin to make sure you remove dirt, dusty, and any oily substances.
Ok. Sorry about that. I had not associated the term wash with tsp. We have also used Murphys oil soap on pieces which I suppose could also be called washing. I guess it was just the term that struck me funny. I have spent most of my working life (40+ yrs) in the cabinet making and furniture business. I've applied or been responsible for applying 10s of thousands (maybe 100s by now) gallons of finishing materials. Wash for us usually meant an application technique as in whitewash. And I suppose that in some places a lot of water is going on wood in the form of water based finishes. We never found them to be effective or durable and when you have to warranty your work that counts. Main thing I was after was more info in order to answer. It's been a long time since I had anything to do with chalk paint so I may be off point here a little but I think there might be a couple points to be made. If you want good adhesion the wood must be clean. Tsp is good choice. It is possible washing refers to stripping the old finish which with chalk is not really necessary. Then it depends on whether you want the chalk paint to fully cover and the piece to just be painted or whether you are going to antique it some. We got into manufactured antiques quite a bit at one point. There one technique involved waxing parts of the product so that some of the paint would strip off easily exposing older finish below looking like an old worn piece of furniture. You might achieve the same effect by not cleaning the piece well and let some of the detritus on the surface provide you with poor adhesion in spots to help you strip it back. But if I were going to do that I would probably clean it first and apply a little wax here and there so it would come out like I wanted it to. Or dispense with the wax altogether and just use an orbital Sander to achieve the worn look. Hope this makes sense and is at least a little help.
This is a Great help John - Thank you soo much for your experience!! Better than anything I have read!!
Thanks again!'
Just want to know if furniture needs to be washed with TSP or a disinfecting cleaner before using chalk paint???!