Browse Forums DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair 1 Oct 13, 2009 1:44 pm Please can someone help....my beautiful dining table is ruined. It has gone from this. http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s360/gweluphome/A2.jpg and now the focal point of the table is this http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s360/gweluphome/IMG_0234.jpg http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s360/gweluphome/IMG_0235.jpg http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s360/gweluphome/IMG_0236.jpg Ok its not massive but it is very obvious and other than a french polisher I am not sure what else to do. I have tried a furniture pen and it just sinks in. Now to what I did........ totally had a mind blank and put new battery's in the baby monitor and didn't realise I should have put rechargeable battery's in::stop:: so the normal bettery's were on charge and this made them leak so annoyed at myself.... so its a hole made out of battery acid in my table. the table is wenge colour and is veneer......oh and its 100kg...so not easy to move around.. any helpful ideas would be appreciated...... and no battery jokes Re: Please HELP! My dining table is ruined....any ideas please 2Oct 13, 2009 1:46 pm Maybe you could try a little bit of wood stain and match to the same colour? Building with Homebuyers Centre El Questro! My building thread..viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19421 Brickies started 5/10 Re: Please HELP! My dining table is ruined....any ideas please 3Oct 13, 2009 3:11 pm Maybe the correct coloured boot polish, followed by Shellac followed by more shellack and more shellack..... Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Please HELP! My dining table is ruined....any ideas please 5Oct 13, 2009 5:11 pm Carmel Maybe some of that coloured wax stuff And until then use a longer table runner. At least you won't have to look at it Good luck. Yep that is what boot polish is Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Please HELP! My dining table is ruined....any ideas please 7Oct 13, 2009 5:19 pm I’d got to a timber furniture maker…..they will be able to sell you what you need to repair that. Ooch! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please HELP! My dining table is ruined....any ideas please 8Oct 13, 2009 7:29 pm Where did you buy the table from? if you contact the shop, they may be able to send it off to their manufacturer who will resurface it for you. For example... I bought some secondhand wenge furniture on ebay which originally came from Oz Design Furniture. A coffee table was badly marked on the top so I contacted Oz Design and they said I should take it in to them. Then they sent it off for repair and it cost me $65, and now it looks like new Blog: http://bluemistkids.blogspot.com "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the Titanic." Re: Please HELP! My dining table is ruined....any ideas please 9Oct 13, 2009 7:39 pm Thanks everyone, some great ideas that are um well very logical..its probably going to be so easy to fix yet I just panicked.......fingers crossed anyway. I will try all the at home things, as I mentioned the table is 100kg and not easy to move so anything I can do at home will help. Thanks for all your tips Hi, Really struggling to find some consistency amongst Span Tables, can anyone help… 0 2655 Can anyone suggest a house layout where the kitchen-dining - living runs the length across the rear of the house left to right where our best view will be we… 0 4343 i had the my concreters concrete right up to the fence. I have pits all along my path, so the water tends to drain away from the house and into the pits. There's only one… 7 12647 |