We have an old home that needed new floors.
How to finish pine floors with tung oil.
Linseed oil which is tarry and so brings out the grain of the pine.
The oil and its use are believed to have originated in ancient china and appear in the writings of confucius from about 400 bc.
Tung oil which has a relatively low level of sheen.
This will help with your diy project with hardwood floors.
We finished our wide pine floor boards that were from a mill same pine we installed on the walls with dark tung oil.
How to finish a floor with pure tung oil tutorial.
They are very beautiful but the manufacturer had us use tung oil on them.
Tung oil or china wood oil is a drying oil obtained by pressing the seed from the nut of the tung tree vernicia fordii.
We decided to put down pine wide plank floors.
One goes on first and.
Pure tung oil finish.
The beauty of finishing floors with tung oil is that those scratches and dents seem to recede into the imperfections and variations of the wood.
Incredibly time cpnsuming compared to poly but non toxic and we can apply more as time goaes on or over scratches.
Both darken the wood somewhat and impart a rich tone that looks especially attractive on yellow pine.
Lemon or walnut oil which are considered specialty oils and may be more expensive.
This leaves the pine with a more natural appearance.
Choose either tung oil or boiled linseed oil.
Through the process i found out there were two types of oil.
Types of oil commonly used to finish pine floors include.