Help! Silly me!..I ironed something on my new dining room table..?
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Before you try stripping and refinishing try a couple of methods first. Fornby's and Howards both make a furniture restorer. With Howards, try to choose the color that matches your wood. It's called Restore-a-Finish. Fornby's is a little kit. Follow the directions for your situation. It will tell you what to do if the finish turned cloudy white, for example.
If either of these methods fail, then you are off to the re-finisher or to the hardware store to purchase the products to do it yourself. Good luck!
Other answers:
strip it and restain and laquer
strip it and restain and laquer
Did it discolor the wood or make the clear coat funny?
They make stuff that you can slowly remove them and the slowly restain.
I have heard that denatured alcohol can help with water damage on furniture but i would test a small spot somewhere first to make sure it does not damage the finish
Yes you silly girl, you did do a boo-boo and for how to fix the it I recommend that you go to a furniture store for advice or even a good hardware store. The hardware store would have everything you'll need if that can be repaired at all.
Next time use and ironing board or two or three heavy towels so the steam won't go through them so easily and may don't hold the iron down very long with the steam on plus use another towel or two to spread around the area you are using to iron on your table to cut down the chances of steam ruining any more of your table.
I hope this is helpful for your problem and good luck with your new project of table repairing.
Oh NO!!
Well, you're basically going to have to do one of several things:
1. Junk your table, I doubt you'll do that, but eh...
2. You'll most likely have to go and sand or strip the whole top of the table, restain it, and have it refinished. It sounds harder than it actually is. It just takes a few days to do this, and is something you can do on your own. Stripping or sanding is the hard part, go to your local hardware store and ask for recommendations on that. Myself, I use Easy-Off oven cleaner which does a wonderful job, and finish up using progressively finer grades of steel wool, or starting with 220 grit sand paper, and working up to finer and finer grits. Wipe off excess dust with a damp cloth. Then stain, preferably with a oil based stain, using a rag, be sure to wear latex or vinyl gloves, making sure to wipe off excess stain. You should only need to do one or two coats of stain. Let it for 24 hours, preferably under lamps. To seal it, you have a couple of options, I prefer to use hand rubbed "tung oil", but you may wanna do a urethane varnish. If you do urethane, do a spray on urethane laquer, your finish will be more even, and you'll be happier with the results.
Trust me, you can do this, its just alot of work, but you'll be very happy with the results.