I am in love with this product. I'm getting ready to Retique ALL THE THINGS (that's sorta a joke, but not really), as we are building a home, and primed baseboards and crown molding, and hollow core doors are exponentially more affordable than solid wood, but I adore real wood, so I've just decided to do it myself! I cringe at the idea of having to wait 2 hours drying time between every coat, because I have so much to do, and I've heard you mention drying with a hair dryer, so I'm just curious about how long you use the blow dryer to dry Retique It? I'll be using a couple coats of the Liquid Wood in Light Wood, then a coat of Liquid Wood in Dark Wood with the graining tool, then staining with Dark Walnut. Do you use the hair dryer just until the surface feels dry ("like unfinished wood," I've heard you say)? Any tips would be greatly appreciated! I can't thank you enough for this product! It is allowing me to have my dream home while keeping some serious money in our budget!
Since it is a waterbased, you can speed it up to around 10 minutes dry time with a blow dryer. We did a facebook live video where we did the entire process from start to finish in 1 hr 20 minutes on a timer. I will upload this video to that channel soon.
First you put bleached wood down. Let it dry then light wood, let it dry. Now you have a new wood layer that is unfinished on your piece. Then you stain it as if you sanded it down.
This is not what you said in the video. You said you applied 2 coats of dark walnut and then grained with. java. Did you not? I am confused. @@MyFlippingLifewithRetiqueIt this is
God willing, it's beautiful, your work is like you and it's luxurious and very wonderful.
So the base coat determines the color you want to end up with?
I am in love with this product. I'm getting ready to Retique ALL THE THINGS (that's sorta a joke, but not really), as we are building a home, and primed baseboards and crown molding, and hollow core doors are exponentially more affordable than solid wood, but I adore real wood, so I've just decided to do it myself! I cringe at the idea of having to wait 2 hours drying time between every coat, because I have so much to do, and I've heard you mention drying with a hair dryer, so I'm just curious about how long you use the blow dryer to dry Retique It? I'll be using a couple coats of the Liquid Wood in Light Wood, then a coat of Liquid Wood in Dark Wood with the graining tool, then staining with Dark Walnut.
Do you use the hair dryer just until the surface feels dry ("like unfinished wood," I've heard you say)? Any tips would be greatly appreciated! I can't thank you enough for this product! It is allowing me to have my dream home while keeping some serious money in our budget!
Since it is a waterbased, you can speed it up to around 10 minutes dry time with a blow dryer. We did a facebook live video where we did the entire process from start to finish in 1 hr 20 minutes on a timer. I will upload this video to that channel soon.
@@MyFlippingLifewithRetiqueIt fabulous! Looking forward to seeing that! Thank you!
Excellent video. Quite simple to do . Where can I get the patterns to buy. Kind regards.
Check out the Graining tool www.woodnstain.com
Did you wipe the excess stain away after each application of the dark walnut ?
First you put bleached wood down. Let it dry then light wood, let it dry. Now you have a new wood layer that is unfinished on your piece. Then you stain it as if you sanded it down.
This is not what you said in the video. You said you applied 2 coats of dark walnut and then grained with. java. Did you not? I am confused. @@MyFlippingLifewithRetiqueIt this is
I’m confused also. Thought it was two coats of black walnut the grain with Java. But you have to apply two different coats of the wood base first???
Nice haa ! 👍
where do you buy those rubber things?
www.Retique.com/grainingtool
If you use it without using liquid wood, it won't feel like wood though.