Some people leave teak to go grey and others oil it. ![]() Yes the seats are teak and I used Sadolin paint. The polyester resin I used is grey but with two or three coats of paint the repaired area soon blended in with the rest of the seat. Then after another fifteen minute wait it can again be sanded down. Be sure to remove any sanding dust first with a brush, by blowing or using an air duster. It’s very easy to mix some more resin and apply it where necessary. Then I sanded the end of each leg until it was reduced to its original length.Īs is often the case when building up with polyester resin unevenness in the surface may appear after sanding to shape just because there wasn’t enough resin applied in the first place. I sanded it until it was flush with the sides of the leg. I wrapped a quarter sheet of course grit paper around a block of wood to sand the polyester resin. Polyester resin sets in fifteen minutes and it can then be sanded. The jagged nature of the leg ends made a good bond with the resin filler. A few measurements and a bit of guess-work were required to determine what length to make the legs. I built up the leg ends beyond the original length. I then let the leg ends dry thoroughly before applying polyester resin in the form of David’s Isopon P38 (a car body filler.) (Other brands of polyester filler are available.) I decided to remove all of the bad wood by prodding and poking the leg ends with a penknife and sanding as necessary. My Method of Repairing Rotten Garden Seat LegsĪ Repaired Garden Seat Leg Ready For Painting It had got to the point where the wood was crumbling away and the legs were now all different lengths. I had to find a method of repairing these rotten garden seat legs. The problematic area was in the bottom centimetre of each leg. I had noticed a deterioration in the wood previously when I painted them but just put plenty of paint on the bottom of the legs after letting the wood dry out. I had painted them with exterior paint several times over the years but this wood wasn’t good to paint anymore. ![]() I dug a penknife into the underside of the end of each leg only to find the wood was soft and easily dug out. I first noticed the problem while I had them upside down when I was cleaning and sanding them ready for repainting. They go back to the 1980’s and the bottom of all the legs has rotted where they are perpetually in contact with the ground. I have two teak garden seats which spend all their time outdoors on the lawn or patio.
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