I have a dining table top with a repaired veneer finish. It has had three coats of waterbased Ronseal called 'Diamond hard varnish' put onto to it. Trouble is, that if water is not wiped off staight away from this varnish (and say gets trapped under a flower vase of water); it creates a white ring stain.
I want to put on an *oiled* based coat and phoned ronseal technical help line to see if it was ok to paint their oil based 'ultra tough varnish' on top of the water based diamond hard varnish. They said it was ok to do so.
I forgot to ask them if the oil based ultra tough is a *polyurathane* varnish or not, and their office is now closed for the weekend. (i want to do it this weekend). I cannot find whether it is or not a polyurathane varnish from their website.
Is this ultra tough varnish likely to be more *scratch resistant* than the diamond hard varnish already on the table or not, would you say?
Also it comes in three finishes; gloss, satin and matt. I would prefer to use the matt, but have been told by someone that usually gloss is more hardwearing than matt paints. Do you think that it would make much difference between gloss and matt with this ultra tough varnish? Thanks for any advice.