I selected a nice dark brown coloured stain from the sample at Bunnings, and it turned out looking like orange paint instead. It completely hides the grain of the timber. I called the helpline and was told that I must not have mixed it properly. I mixed it very thoroughly, and had another go on a scrap piece of timber.... and no difference. Its an awful product and has destroyed the look of our deck. We are now sanding it all off and starting again with Feast Watson stain. Im never touching Cabots products again!

This is definatelly not a wood stain, it is more like an acrylic paint, it completely hides all the grain in the wood. This product should be removed from the shelves or advertised as a paint,not a wood stain.

I purchased a big tin of ‘beach house grey’ and even though I stirred it thoroughly (this is not my first rodeo), the colour was different ranging from opaque white to barely there. I did four boards, panicked then washed it all off with the Karsher. My deck is still ugly and I’ve wasted money, time and materials. Sad face.

Horrible. New treated pine deck ruined. Sampled the water based ‘ebony’ colour. Purchased the oil based ebony which is on ONE colour chart & it is completely different. Brown is now Red! Devastated our new deck on our new renovation ruined. All our savings poured into our reno! Shame on you Cabot. Look at ALL the reviews. Do something.

I decided to use this product after reading the can at my local hardware store. Now less then one year later my deck looks terrible. Cabot needs to stop selling this product. I have now read many reviews on line an if I had read them before I purchased this product, then I would have known how many people had tried this stain and were dissatisfied with it. Do not buy this product.

Similar problems, they Bunnings sold us Cabot’s deck paint asked for dulux but they said there was a special Cabot’s which would give the same finish and colour on our new treated pine deck the Cabot paint turned out which we will have to darken somehow so we are disappointed both in Cabot’s and Bunnings

For the last five years I have annually cleaned and applied merbau stain to my hardwood decks. I've used a number of different brands and found them to have a consistent darkish colour. This year I bought cabots and was horrified to see what looks like an orange paint finish. I went and bought another brand for the second coat to try and cover it up but it has barely made a difference. Can't believe how terrible it is. Not sure what to do now but thinking i will prob have to sand it off.

We followed all the instructions on the website and given to us by Bunnings. We needed a lot more product than we were told we would. Our new pine deck now looks like a plastic painted surface. We have been told it was our fault for not preparing the timber correctly but we followed and the instructions and spent a lot of money on Cabots products. It might as well be painted with house paint.

Used the interior Walnut stain. First coat came out quite orange, nothing like sample in Bunnings. Second coat toned down the orange, but still evident. More reddish than normal walnut. Wasn't game to try a third coat - think it might end up too dark for what we want?

When I compared stain colour in the can with the little bit left in an old can (both Walnut), you can see more orange in the newer stain. Think part of problem might be that instead of stain being used (hard to source now), colour is added to stain. Sad that so much preparation and effort is wasted because of this. If there is anything I can do to correct prior to clear coating, would love to hear.

Biggest load of crap I have ever used. Looked like it was painted with a mixture of tangerines and oranges. Not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not happy.! Been re doing decks for 20 years and this is the first time using Cabots. Never again.

$22,000 worth of decking. Follow instructions to the tee. End result? Worst looking deck of all time. Orange in colour, what looks like dirt underneath. One ruined deck and now $1800 to strip the deck back by sanding.

Do yourself a favour never ever by a cabots product.

Bunnings of no help......Advice but no care once the product is out the door. Vcat time. Product does not do what it is supposed to..

So angry at Cabots! We used "new Jarra" oil based stain on our merbau deck. We were told it would give a deep stain look. May as well have used pine and painted it bright orange. You can't even see any of the natural features of the timber anymore. 3 days later and still tacky. Will be re sanding and finding a better product. DO NOT USE!

I am not happy with the results of this product. The product did not dry for three days. I followed all instructions, and cleaned the deck using cabots deck cleaner. Water bead tested and it was fine as per cabots instructions. also dried for 24 hours in hot weather. It is easy to apply, but the product did not work as advertised. My deck remained unusable for around 4 days. I have had a deck for some time, and never had any issues, and in all honesty have never even cleaned it properly, it seems as though i went over the top using the cabots deck cleaner and the results were much worse. I will discard the remaining 2 litres, and never purchase this product again. I wish I had seen all these reviews before i purchased this product.

Easy to apply except for smell and clean up. Prepared deck (Indonesian Batu) as per Cabots instructions and using their deck clean first, deck mate recepticle and applicator, first coat took 5 days to dry and second coat is still sticky after 8 days. Will it ever dry and not remain sticky??? Cant return any furniture to deck or walk on it. Used natural timber decking oil. Won't use this product again and will be returning product to Bunnings and asking for a refund.

Unfortunately we are in the same boat as most other people reviewing this product. Our deck looks ridiculous after using Cabots oil based deck stain. It is a mix of bright orange paint look and no uptake at all.
It looked much better before we bothered to clean and stain it.

I used this on my outdoor furniture because my regular stain was out of stock, BIG mistake. It is patchy and looks like a cross between some sort of cheap stain and paint and angered me to the point where i have sanded all the furniture back to wood & will be applying Wattyl Forestwood. Cabots is absolute rubbish, don't go near, you will regret it!!

We bought the merbau decking from bunnings,and were advised that Merbau on Merbau oil would come out the best,honestly we may as well of used an off black paint,no grain showing and the finish is flat and shines in places.

This coating is dark brown and looks like crap.

Thanks guys...