Ruined dressing table

[starone]

Don't know if this is the right category for this but I am sure someone will help. I have been using a perfume by Paul Smith called 'Rose'. For some reason the bottle has leaked and now there is a round mark burned into the top of my dressing table. When I think, that is what I am spraying on my body, it makes me wonder what they put in it to burn a mark like this, but my real question is does anyone know what I can do to cure it. I think the whole of the top of the dressing table will have to be treated but realistically I wonder whether it might be just as well to scrap it and buy a new one. Which will make it the most expensive perfume I have ever bought! I now have the perfume standing on a saucer. I tried standing it on thick tissues but it burned through that as well. So I am left with one very bad mark and a series of small ones. Not good! Can anyone tell me what to do?

[ummmm]

What is the dressing table made of?

[tonyav]

It was probably alcohol in the perfume that has marked your dressing table, Star.

[starone]

Don't know ummmm, as far as I am concerned it is made of wood. Don't know what kind. Tony - I didn't know alcohol was that powerful!! No wonder it has the effect it has on some people's brains.

[tonyav]

Well it sounds like it as attacked the varnish.

[boxtops]

If you can clean stains off coins, and clean your loo, with Coca-Cola, sometimes it's just as well we don't know what's in things!

I left a ripe melon on top of a wooden chest of drawers a few years back - it was overripe and the alcoholic juice seeped out and down the front of a drawer, it took the varnish off!

Could you get some Fablon or similar stick-on surface, and recover the top of the dressing-table with that?

[mrs_overall]

All I can suggest is to sand down the dressing table, or cover the mark with a pretty cloth

[The Builder]

It wouldn't be too difficult a job to sand the whole top down....... maybe with a belt sander, or a random orbital sander.
The only problem is the varnish clogging up the sanding sheets. An alternative would be to use a cabinet scraper .........
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http://www.axminster....t-scrapers-prod21776/
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Very easy to use, and very effective. The finish needs only a light sanding afterwards.

[starone]

Thanks everyone. Cheaper than buying a new one! I have a couple of pretty cloths I can use for the time being and my son-in-law will have a sander so I shall see him and twist his arm a bit see what I can get him to do. I can then do a bit of varnishing and polishing myself.

[mark786]

It was probably alcohol in the perfume that has marked your dressing table, Star.
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