Using "kitchen" oil on garden furniture

jellymid

My Mum was telling me that on Gardeners' World on Friday they were using "kitchen" oil....I assume vegetable or sunflower oil to protect their new garden furniture. At the time I was suffering an almighty headache having spent the day oiling mine furniture with stinky teak oil. Has anyone done this? Does it get absorbed or would it come off on your clothes? Does it work? I have one bench left to do and am reluctant to get the teak oil out again. I'd be very interested in your views/experiences as it would be very money saving, too.

wallbash

It was shown on Gardeners' World on Friday , think it was sunflower
But it was on a 'new' table.

Would it look the same as the rest of the set. ?

Ps if you already have the teak oil, take an aspirin and as its not raining get on with it.

Jonesya

I've never heard of sunflower/rape seed oil being used to treat wood - I don't know how well it would dry.

If you don't like the solvents in teak oil (which is normally made from a drying oil such as linseed or tung oil and a solvent - white spirit) then you might want to try linseed oil, it may not penetrate the wood as well as teak oil but it's a pure vegetable oil that dries and has been used as a wood treatment for centuries - unlike sunflower oil!

bifflexia

Had a go with veg oil (rapeseed) on Tuesday evening, made my hardwood table look lovely, brought out all the grain. Its now been bucketing down on and off for the last two days so have been unable to have a good look at how its holding up, once I find out the results will return to post comment's.

gmgmgm

I've heard advice in the past not to use cooking veg oils- they can apparently go rancid and rather horrible.

I would stick to mineral oil (baby oil) or the normal wood oils e.g. tung/teak/linseed/danish.

Remember teak and some similar woods don't need oiling.

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phill99

Just wondered if in the really hot sunshine will it end up smelling like chips?

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leveller2911

IMO The best oils to use on garden furntiture are Danish oil,Teak oil,tung oil( from the tung nut) or you can use Boiled linseed oil, BUT never,never use Raw linseed oil as it will never dry it just stays sticky.I wouldnt suggest using cooking oils of any kind as they will promote rot and mould ot to mention the fact they they won't dry and if you oil any seats your clothes will get covered..

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