If you have honest to gosh real Redwood Furniture, not the cheapo imitation plain wood painted with a redwood stain, then you know it’s worth your time and effort to repair or restore this outdoor furniture rather than trash it and buy something new.

Here are a few diy redwood restoring and repair tips you can use.

First off, if your redwood furniture is going to be used outdoors, don’t use yellow glue for repairs. This type of glue is not waterproof. When I’m making any repairs to outside furniture, or to anything that will be going outside, I use several products. These might include epoxy or a plastic adhisive resin. You can also use resocinol to make these repairs.

If you plan on painting your redwood furniture, make sure you apply a fast drying oil based primer first. Otherwise, if you don’t, the stain will bleed through the paint, causing an ugly finish.

Sometimes when you buy new or even used redwood furniture, the stain will run the fist time it gets wet. The new can run because, well, it’s new and hasn’t had water on it to wash out the excess stain. Used redwood furniture can run because it may have been previously stained before being put up for sale. The owner may have used too much stain or didn’t rinse it off after drying.

These stains can really do a number to your patio. It’s a wise choice to put your furniture out on the lawn and hose it off real good and let it dry before putting it on your patio the first time.

If you have old rusty hardware that you wan to remove from your redwood furniture, mask off the area around the hardware and then apply penetrating oil to the bolts or whatever you want to remove. Let it stand 12 to 24 hours then remove. The tape keeps the penetrating oil from staining the wood.

To get the original finish to your old redwood outdoor furniture, use a pressure washer to give it an extra good cleaning. This should remove most old stains also. Then, once your redwood patio furniture is dry, you can finish it up with some light sanding. It should bring the wood back to its former self!