Hello! Ultimate first world problem here.
I have been meaning to put together an epic table based on the ‘largest size I can get kitchen worktop’. The wood is Zebrawood if that’s relevant but I doubt it.
For the longest time we have simply placed it ‘smoothest surface down’ on top of our existing table, to use and display it. Smoothest side down because I’m an idiot and didn’t realise. We flipped it up the right way about a week ago (smooth side up). Since then, our cleaners have visited the house.
I’ve now noticed a bunch of strange and distracting ‘shiny marks’ on the smooth surface of the wood. These don’t obviously align so where the wood was resting on the table.
It’s really hard to capture on camera, but the effect is that somebody has sprayed something or sneezed on the table!
There are no such marks on the rough side.
My best guesses are as follows:
(1) manufacturing defect, I never noticed.
(2) placing it this side down on the old wood table has somehow caused a weird effect with the varnishes… even though the marks don’t neatly align to where the table was placed.
(3) my leading guess - our cleaners sprayed a bunch of product on it (surface polish?) and didn’t wipe it off properly, causing it to dry / affect the varnish. The table is usually full of crap (laundry table) so perhaps nobody has been inclined to ‘polish’ the other side before.
Any ideas? If it is excess polish, what could we use to try to remove it?
Maybe it’s a ‘sand it down’ job…. Bah!
Many thanks in advance!
I have been meaning to put together an epic table based on the ‘largest size I can get kitchen worktop’. The wood is Zebrawood if that’s relevant but I doubt it.
For the longest time we have simply placed it ‘smoothest surface down’ on top of our existing table, to use and display it. Smoothest side down because I’m an idiot and didn’t realise. We flipped it up the right way about a week ago (smooth side up). Since then, our cleaners have visited the house.
I’ve now noticed a bunch of strange and distracting ‘shiny marks’ on the smooth surface of the wood. These don’t obviously align so where the wood was resting on the table.
It’s really hard to capture on camera, but the effect is that somebody has sprayed something or sneezed on the table!
There are no such marks on the rough side.
My best guesses are as follows:
(1) manufacturing defect, I never noticed.
(2) placing it this side down on the old wood table has somehow caused a weird effect with the varnishes… even though the marks don’t neatly align to where the table was placed.
(3) my leading guess - our cleaners sprayed a bunch of product on it (surface polish?) and didn’t wipe it off properly, causing it to dry / affect the varnish. The table is usually full of crap (laundry table) so perhaps nobody has been inclined to ‘polish’ the other side before.
Any ideas? If it is excess polish, what could we use to try to remove it?
Maybe it’s a ‘sand it down’ job…. Bah!
Many thanks in advance!
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