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Cleaning Your Furniture |
Strong heavy duty Furniture Cleaner with a mineral spirits base is designed for serious cleaning applications
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Cleaning Furniture and
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![]() Cleaning Furniture in GeneralA good cleaning can work wonders on a piece of old furniture that has been stored in an attic or shed for many, many years. Even many older pieces that are in use can look a lot better with a good cleaning. When a piece of furniture is waxed or polished there is always a fine layer of dust that is mixed in with the wax or polish and over a period of years the layer will darken and obscure the grain pattern of the wood. Handy Furniture Cleaning ToolsSome handy tools for cleaning furniture are lots of soft clothes, a toothbrush, toothpicks, a dowel the size of a pencil, sharpened in a pencil sharpener, 0000 steel wool, and a lot of patience. Prelude has a very good cleaning product called, novel enough, furniture cleaner. Murphy's Oil Soap, or other vegetable oil soap is also good. Go sparingly with water on a furniture finish and never use water on a shellac finish. TSP is a good cleaner too, but you have to be careful not to mix the solution too strong or it can damage the finish.
Antique Restoration, AddendumTo restore an antique is to get it back as close to original as possible. Way back when, there was no such thing as polyurethane, so antique restoration can't include coating an antique with plastic and have it be the same as original. We're proud to be an affialiate of DickBlick |
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