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making dark Ercol Furniture lighter

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Hi all,

I know that this might be a contentious subject and i have read a good deal of quite confusing (for me anyway!) and often contradictory, stuff online about it.

OK so we have several items of Ercol furniture which is lovely stuff and has been around for ages. Most of it was my mother's. It is very dark - not fashionable and we dont like it so it would be great if it could be stripped and refinished lighter. Not totally blonde would be fine just a lot lighter. Apparently something about Ercol makes it difficult.

Has anyone any experience of actually doing this? If so the help would be appreciated.

John
 
Hi John,

I had an Old Colonial suite many years ago and I don't know what the elm was finished with but it was thick and lovely. I've had goes at trying to remove varnishes from furniture with varying degrees of failure in the past, so I didn't try it and left it the golden brown finish.

From my auto/moto days, I sometimes wondered if 'gentle' sandblasting would work.

Just a thought.
 
We had some chairs "dipped and stripped" many years ago. They were old oak chairs and came back very clean, however the dripping had the affect of drying the wood and seemed to leave the pores very open so beware.
 
Andyp":1so5i62z said:
We had some chairs "dipped and stripped" many years ago. They were old oak chairs and came back very clean, however the dripping had the affect of drying the wood and seemed to leave the pores very open so beware.
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That was probably a bath of sodium hydroxide and unless it's neutralised properly then the end result (and ongoing prognosis) is dire. Knocks the stuffing out of the glue joints more often than not.
 
Tusses":3r5wp688 said:
I have half a tin of proper nitro .. in my "saved for best" cupboard ! lol
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I have seen an Ercol coffee table stripped with Nitromors and it did an excellent job.

Neil
 
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