Leftover timber

soulglo79

Hey folks, I have lots of timber boards from when my mother's garage was being built. I want to use them to build a bar counter in my shed but they're splattered with cement. Does anyone know how you would go about cleaning the cement off?

Berkieahern

soulglo79 wrote: »

Hey folks, I have lots of timber boards from when my mother's garage was being built. I want to use them to build a bar counter in my shed but they're splattered with cement. Does anyone know how you would go about cleaning the cement off?

Problem with the cement is it burns into the timber, so you'll probably have to plane a lair off the timber. Or maybe try a belt sander on them!

soulglo79

Berkieahern wrote: »

Problem with the cement is it burns into the timber, so you'll probably have to plane a lair off the timber. Or maybe try a belt sander on them!

A mate of mine has a belt sander, I'll borrow it off him an see how I get on.

Thanks for the advice!

Berkieahern

What kind of timber is it?

jack of all

I'd use a triangular scraper first, to remove the worst of the cement spatters. Sand and cement will quickly destroy a sanding belt otherwise.