Thread: Teak Railings
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Old 11-22-2011, 11:45 AM   #8
Marin
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Teak Railings

FWIW we have used Bristol on all the exterior teak on our boat. In the places where we've had the time to apply eight to ten coats we generally can go as long as six years without having to add another finish coat. A few years ago we took a shipwright's advice on the Grand Banks owners forum and have started putting a couple of coats of CPES on bare wood before applying the Bristol, and then applying the first coat of Bristol while the CPES is still a bit tacky. On some of the cabin trim strips where we applied the CPES but the weather and my scheduled to conspired to give us time for only one or two coats of Bristol after the CPES, the Bristol lasted for two years in the weather with no sign of deterioration. Not that we want to do this--- our minimum number of finish coats is eight if we can get that many on. But I was impressed to see how well just a one or two coats of finish held up with a CPES coating on the bare wood first. The CPES base process will not work on wood that already has a finish on it, by the way. It is for use on bare wood only.


-- Edited by Marin on Tuesday 22nd of November 2011 01:46:22 PM
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