Wood stain too dark!

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Hi there, any suggestions? Mr Wishbone spent ages matching up a wood dye for the garage door so as it would go with the porch, it looked fine, only problem is his test must have been done on a different type of wood! as since it has been applied to garage door it's very dark. Any ideas of any product that might be applied to lighten the colour? A resand is on the cards otherwise and I'm afraid the door will be shaved down to nothing with that! Tx.
 
Check first that you have the same wood in the porch as the garage doors, secondly as I assume the porch is older the timber will have naturally darkened with age. If much of an age difference it will take a few years to have them the same colour.

Sanding is the only option to get the wrong stain off.
 
Porch is PVC wood effect, just been done recently, so unfortunately that's not an option.

Seems we/he might have to go the sanding route so - thanks for the responses!
 
wishbone said:
Hi there, any suggestions? Mr Wishbone spent ages matching up a wood dye for the garage door so as it would go with the porch, it looked fine, only problem is his test must have been done on a different type of wood! as since it has been applied to garage door it's very dark. Any ideas of any product that might be applied to lighten the colour? A resand is on the cards otherwise and I'm afraid the door will be shaved down to nothing with that! Tx.
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You could try a less awful route and buy some nitromorse and see if that takes it off.

What you do is put it on very fast then spray it off quickly.

Let it dry then do it again.

Or you could buy some cellelose thinners or methylated spirits and use either to get it off.

When staining a door or something similiar it's best to bring the colour up slowly to get the colour you want.
 
If it is just the stain that is to dark and you have not varnished this yet you can Bleach the stained wood stain to make it lighter, As always if you feel this will work in your case wear safety gear.
 
mick1960 said:
If it is just the stain that is to dark and you have not varnished this yet you can Bleach the stained wood stain to make it lighter, As always if you feel this will work in your case wear safety gear.
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Actually we haven't varnished yet so we might try this! Thanks to everyone for suggestions.

I agree, he should have started light and worked up to the right colour, like cooking and salt, easy to add, not so easy to take away.
 
Hi wishbone, if you use the base of the stain you'll take it off much faster than by using bleach.

I was involved with restoration of old furniture for many years and this is what I used to do.

The bases are water (rare), white spirit based, methys or cellelose thinners.

Cellelose thinners works for all bar water based stains if you are trying to get the doors lighter then this is the route to take.
 
S.L.F said:
if you use the base of the stain you'll take it off much faster than by using bleach
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Ok that's great to know - so we've used 2 products, Colron Wood Dye which contains petroleum (so assume solvent based) and another one Colron Refined Wood dye which from what I can google seems to be water based - just our luck eh?

The water based dye was applied first and then the Colron Wood dye applied on top.

We can try the cellulose thinner anyway and see how it goes first.
 
A neighbour of mine decided to get her hubby to strip back the paint off the windows & stain them. He spent weeks on this & eventually finished. But the wife thought the stain was too dark & he had to re-do the lot !!!

(I know what I'd have told her!!)

OP - you're other option is to live with it. You probably won't even notice it in a few weeks (like the one xmas decoration that never seems to get taken down!!)
 
Funnily enough, I'm not worried - it's the husband who is!! :))
I'd have told her where to shove the old stripper too!

(you must be able to see into our house) I quite like our Christmas decoration hanging from the curtain pole...always was too much effort to reach up and retrieve it!
 
sam h said:
A neighbour of mine decided to get her hubby to strip back the paint off the windows & stain them. He spent weeks on this & eventually finished. But the wife thought the stain was too dark & he had to re-do the lot !!!

(I know what I'd have told her!!)

OP - you're other option is to live with it. You probably won't even notice it in a few weeks (like the one xmas decoration that never seems to get taken down!!)
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Just noticed a bit of holly over a picture in the sitting room! :eek: :D
 
wishbone said:
Ok that's great to know - so we've used 2 products, Colron Wood Dye which contains petroleum (so assume solvent based) and another one Colron Refined Wood dye which from what I can google seems to be water based - just our luck eh?

The water based dye was applied first and then the Colron Wood dye applied on top.

We can try the cellulose thinner anyway and see how it goes first.
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Might not be a bad thing.

Use the cellelose thinners first use plenty and use a nail brush to get into the grain the use more fluid to wash it off, then power hose the doors this will get some of the water based one off too.

This should get the doors down a few lighter shades.
 
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