White water ring on the wood in a holiday home

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Staying in a beautiful holiday home.

Husband left wine glasses drying upside down on the beautiful deep wooden kitchen windowsill. There's a row of white water rings now

How do i remove them?? Please help me mumsnet.

(I wish I'd known that instead of screetching at the children not to break anything I should have been monitoring the grown man )

Put a tea towel on top of the area with the rings. Iron the tea towel, on a medium heat. The heat of the iron will pull the moisture out of the wood. It may take two or three tries to get it all out.

(My dad is a furniture restorer and taught me this many years ago.)

I was going to post the same as lemonpoppyseed - it really does work. I've got marks out of a varnished wooden table top with this technique. The iron temp was low enough to put your hand against the soleplate for about 30 seconds before it got uncomfortable. Do not use steam.

Does this work for older marks? Or just fresh ones ? Thanks

I've done it on old marks on a coffee table and it worked, awee.

Rubbing half a walnut is good for wood marks

The marks I got rid of were really old. I think they but trick only works on unvarnished wood and is a temporary fix.

I sold the table after getting rid of the marks. Couldn't shift it before I did! I also got twice as much as a local antiques dealer said it might be worth.

They but = the nut!

Did it work, OP?

Haven't tried the iron trick yet! Will do it shortly.

Tried an olive oil and vinegar idea suggested by google but no luck.

Will report back. Thanks all.

I'm interested to know how you get on. I spend my life policing water marks on my beloved walnut dining table. DH thinks I'm insane . There are so many marks I've been unable to get off!

Try it chloe - it works

OK fudge just have to lug the enormous steam generator iron up from the cellar (Will iron without steam!)