Varathane Oil-Based Interior Polyurethane
The figures Rust-Oleum (Varathane) prints for Varathane Oil-Based Interior Polyurethane on its own data sheet, at the conditions it names. Where the sheet doesn't give a figure, this page says so rather than borrow one from another product.
- Dry to the touch
- Not on the sheet we read
- Recoat
- 4 h
- Ready for use
- 24 h (light use)
- Full cure
- Not on the sheet we read
- Coverage
- 150–175 sq ft per quart
- Thinning
- Not on the sheet we read
- VOC
- Max 450 g/L
- Conditions
- Apply at 55–90 °F
- Indoors or out
- Interior
- Food contact
- The sheet we read makes no food-contact statement
One source: Rust-Oleum (Varathane), the maker of that product
From the sheet: The 450 VOC formula; recoat only when the coat has dried clear and feels hard; dries slower on redwood, cedar and other oily woods.
Against its kind
Varathane Oil-Based Interior Polyurethane is one of the products in oil-based polyurethanes; here is that kind across every maker we have read.
Oil-based polyurethanes: recoat across makers
4 h
span 3–24 h
Median of 3 sources
Oil-based polyurethanes: coverage across makers
500 sq ft/gal
span 500–700 sq ft/gal, per coat
Median of 3 sources
Related
- Every product of this kind: oil-based polyurethane
- If it goes wrong: bubbles in polyurethane, orange peel, fisheyes, brush marks, dust nibs, sticky or tacky finish, cloudy or white finish (blushing), cracking or crazing
- How much to buy: finish coverage calculator
- Every finish side by side: finish dry time chart
- What the federal rules say about finishes and food: food-contact finishes
Work it out for your project
- Plan your coats of this finish
Pick the piece and the wood, then get a dated coat schedule from the product’s own sheet.