um we're gonna take this bro here which i'll show you close above in a minute um it's it's pretty uh it's pretty knackered um it's got marks all over it the polish is warm um there's no structural damage as such we have got a lot of damage on the top um there's water marks ring marks sorry about the light in here it's a bit bright today but you can see really really warm polish on top of this some bad marks here i'll try and move into better light in a minute but um and then moving down you can see again where these handles have been everything's just going to need a real good clean little crack there like you see and then then inside it it's extremely warm scratched here lovely albiora and the leather again you can see here look at this very damaged i'll show you a quick method just to clean up that easy peasy um and again warm so hopefully we'll get all this in a better light and we'll have a look at the sides yeah so pretty much shocking side you can't really see any grain and some bracket feet that will split on the bottom of that foot at the back but again as we clean this up we'll get rid of most of these marks i'm going to show you some just real simple methods to clean up furniture if you're a retired diy enthusiast first timer you just want to get into something you want to do something creative you want to try something you can do all this half the stuff you can buy from a diy shop just follow some simple methods we've done it for a long time we use real old traditional methods but i can show you how to do these in a simple way you can do up furniture buy it from an auction you can try all these things out i'll just show you a couple of things which i'm going to use on this bio right here so some good things to have again a bit of french polish um a bit of shellac thinners or methylated spirits um a brush if you've got one polishing mop whatever you want to use the term for i've got some white oil a bit of fine wire wall triple oh it's a real fine wool just you know it's not it's not abrasive okay so what we're going to do with the meth and the wire wall is we're just going to rub it on and we're going to clean with the grain across the surface of this piece because what the mess and the very fine wire wall is going to do it's going to clean the top layer of any grime and dirt off it's going to leave us with a base coat of the original french polish underneath meths is very good do [Applause] okay so bigger drawers again with the same thing because i've not done many of these videos before i'm just going to set these lights up just to see if we can get a better light because it's a bit of an overcaster today there's a lot of uh humble yorkshire weather just a simple summer full of uh thunder and rain really which is good you know right hopefully this might be a better light for us now so let's see if we can crack on i'm going to do the front panel panel if i if i lose my wall one more time we're going to take the fine dry wire wall okay and we're gonna rub with the grain and take off this excess white film which you can see okay i'm just going with the grain and you can sort of see can you see the powder dust that's the thunder from the thunder's bed thunder's bad on the lights but today but we'll try basically a good tip on the wires yeah with brass handles better fine wire wool bit of oil cleans them up a tree you don't need any of this brass or rubbish or anything like that this will just take enough of the of the grime off and still leave you with a nice um period looking antique handle the last thing you want is a handle that looks like it's completely been shined and cleaned a bit okay so what we've done now um it's best to talk to you but because what you're doing is so basic it's just um that we're meeting the right way just so that you can do this at home and it is really simple and easy so we've got the original wire wool with the meths on and we've cleaned off for the old polish that was on top of this the grime and the crack and the dirt that we focused in on and then we've waited for that for five minutes just to dry just to air off evaporate you've been left with white film in places almost looks marked we're then taking that off with this fine wall so we've rubbed again probably i don't know 20 minutes to get it back to this basic stage now we've got some original polish to work with we've got all the marks back to a like a bare very smooth glassy finish there's nothing that can react with anything we've put on there's no grease there's not film we've got it back to its core publishing power and to strip them to mess about this is simple this is easy so okay so you can sort of see where we are now everything's back still looking warm i'm gonna put some oil on next and get this fed up do you see it sort of looks nice and wet and there's a bit of a film and it's getting the right shine in the right places basically where we're feeding this polish now we put some oil in some wire wool we've cleaned it back we've made it flat and now we're rubbing with that fine wool again a nice mild abrasive wool with that oil and it's keeping it real glassy and getting that original polish out and we're just going to keep on rubbing that oil in so we've covered everything don't worry it'll look wet it look like this bits dripping off it's just oil on polish it's not harming it's helping do so you can really see now that the oil is really making a difference to the piece of furniture it's got right in there it's really brought out that cool originality to it so just just leave it all for 10 minutes now just to soak in a bit and we'll uh we'll do the next process have a glass of wine okay so now it's soaked in ten minutes all you need to do now is get a piece of drywall again and rub again and what we'll do now is we're rubbing out any excess oil and making it flatter and flatter so we're rubbing again with a simple piece of dry wool and we're rubbing out this oil what this has done is it's given us a beautiful now flat polished surface to work with nice okay so the next thing we're just gonna do now is um now everything's dried everything's off we've got that nice clean surface to work with we've dry wire walled off that oil we've got this lovely just bare finish to work with i'm just going to add one um you can call it curds french polish i'm just going to give it a rubber now so i'm going to dip my fad which is the correct name for that the term is rubbering i'm gonna get my father you might call it a mouse but that's the original line uh in the french polish i'm just gonna apply some french polish onto this piece of furniture if i'll do a video later on about how to make a decent fat but for now um if you wanted to give it one coat of french polish with um a brush and remember the last time i said i used quite a nice brush of school hair brush but just one one one coat and that would be absolutely fine and what it's going to do is we're just going to put a sealant and a bit of body on the polish of what we've got so i'll just show you how to do that now so with the grain with the mop brush just in the inside pulling the polish back from the drawers so so okay so with the fab next i'm just going to go around the outside and just give it a quick rubber well what what would say about a fad if you can learn to use one is it'll put on a real thin film of polish but it doesn't matter if you use a brush anyway because after that dries you can use that same method with um some fine wire wool and oil or wax to to rub it back if it's gone too thick that that's a simple way for you to sort it if you if you just get into it do you