Penofin Deep Penetrating Oil Treatment for Exotic Hardwood Exterior, Wood Stain IPE Finish (1 Gallon)

The product is very nice. This is the third time I’ve ordered it. All three times, the can arrives dented. The packaging is intact and the container doesn’t leak, however, the can seems too thin.

We have an ipe wood deck which had gone uncleaned or treated for about 4 years. We first cleaned the deck with an anti algae / grime cleanser. After letting it dry, we applied a single coat of this oil. The oil is not at all transparent. It is obviously brown in the can, and brown on your wood. But it does have translucence and did look very nice. We were complete novices, but took our time, and it worked great. Some things we learned:- we applied with a cheap garden sprayer, and then worked in with brushes. This worked well even though the sprayer was very haphazard in its spray. It got the oil on the surface faster and easier than dipping a brush, but also allowed the benefit of brushwork (working it into every grain, getting a thin even coat). This worked well for two people working together, as we would spray down a section, then work together to brush it in using a couple cheap brushes that we just tossed after.- we did all the vertical surfaces first, which are easier since you cant really over apply (it just runs down the pole). We wiped them all down after with rags (important) to remove excess.- we then did the horizontal surfaces, spraying about 4 boards at a time, then brushing it in and spreading even. We did half the deck, wiped with rags, then did the other half and wiped with rags.- The entire project took 2.5 hours for two people. The deck is about 250 sq. foot with a bit of railing and a couple stairs. That took exactly one gallon of oil.- if you are careful to wipe up excess, there is really no issue with getting an even finish, even if you go over an area twice as you are moving along. The wood absorbs only so much oil, the rest needs to be wiped up.When we do it again, what we will do differently is to purchase a nicer sprayer (a $25 one instead of the $9 one we used). This would make the initial coat pretty much uniform. We would still brush in, but much less work. The sprayer approach is also great when you have very thin cracks between each slat. The spray gets in even where a brush struggles. The spray first, and then brush after is so much faster than a brush or pad, and very clean, as there is no pan or can you are dipping into or moving around.

Purchased 1 gallon of this stain to cover a deck/fence/gate constructed last summer with treated wood. What a great product this is. First coat it looked good and second coat made it like showroom furniture. The oil based stain gets deep in the wood and leaves a transparent yet brown finish. I bought a second gallon to get a second coat on everything. It is pricey but I feel worth very penny. Will be using this in the future. Very Happy. Cannot recommend this enough.

If you have IPE, you know this oil is kind of hard to find. Don't waste your time trying to save a couple bucks somewhere else - I have bought this twice now a year apart and it arrives super fast in a very sturdy packing box. If you find it cheaper, you will get ripped on shipping anyway. From all of the extensive research I have done before buying, this is a much better product than the only other oil out there made for IPE. A couple of hints though; apply it thinly! Less is not more! Try to apply when the sun is not beating down on the deck. And for the love of gawd, do not leave any rags with this stuff on it anywhere - this stuff is so highly combustible it's scary. I set a rag down while I was working with just some of it on it (not soaked at all) and the rag caught on fire. Be careful, use common sense, and watch a few you tubes on it. Good product.

After pressure washing our deck, we used almost two gallons for one coat that came out beautifully. This is our routine we've done every two years, and I can hear people losing it after reading that we use a pressure washer on our deck. Yes, we've actually washed and re-stained our deck 9 times, and it still looks like new after each application, and it's 18 years old now. This is the only oil I'd put on my deck. Oh, and yes there is a strong smell but it goes away within a week.

The application of this looks really good on my furniture but there's a few things to know about it.1. Ipe wood doesn't like to absorb the stuff very well so I had to make sure that I went back over it a few different times during the day to wipe off any excess that pushed its way up to the top.2. It smells and I mean a lot. My furniture sits outside in the open air and I feel like it took close to a month for most of the smell to go away.3. I can't remember how long it took to actually drive before I put my cushions back on but I know I let it go quite a few weeks.4. A little bit of the stuff seems to go a long way and I thought that I would buy the gallon container and be able to keep it for a while. But after receiving it and reading the container I think it mentioned something about it possibly gelling up. I haven't checked my container to see if that actually happened but I would advise buying a small of a container as possible for your needs.5. I feel like maybe it raise the grain of my wood a little bit and I need to take some steel wool to the top of my furniture. I could be wrong on that because my furniture sits outdoors but I recently built all of this and put a coat of the oil on it not too long after sending everything down turn nice smooth finish.I probably buy it again if I had to and I'll keep reusing the stuff that I have but I don't know of any other brand that's supposedly protects as well.