Thread: White wash finish -- liming?

Yvonne, I have always been wary of using stains because I have found them so difficult to use and particularly to get an even result. A recent book that I read talked about gel stains. The only one I could find at Bunnings was Wattyl wood gel. There is no white, and the lightest was called aged baltic. However this is very, very easy to apply. There may be other brands. The usual caveats apply - try on scrap first, etc. This really is very easy to use. The other problem was I could only buy it in a small tube of 200 ml from Bunnings. Wattyl does have very helpful technical department, telephone 132 101, and they may be able to tell you where to get increased quantities or about different colours.
Charles

Thanks Charles.

We have a tube of the Wood Gel in wenge (dark dark brown). Stupid thing is we always do test on a piece of scrap but because the scrap usually is some flat(ish) piece we don't get the pooling effect or any imperfections on the wood that grabs the colour. So we get this wonderful finish on the scrap (after x number coats and x number of days of testing this piece of scrap) and then we do the real thing... grrrrrrrr...

The Wood Gel is nice but unfortunately won't give us the nice white finish we are after.

Keep the ideas coming in though!

btw the latest idea is just to water down some (water based) white paint and paint it on! Is that OK?