Tongue Oil On Pine Floors

We still love the flooring and think it was the best choice for our home and budget.

Tongue oil on pine floors.

The 3 4 in thick solid plank flooring shown is milled with a tongue and groove. I have recently looked at a pine floor in a new house and the home owner asked if i could put tung oil on pine floors instead of poly she told me that she had read it in a magazine and that it said to wipe the tung oil on then wipe it off. Over time this new tung oil will dull down and start to blend in to the original flooring surface. We will be installing pine floors in our new house.

This process is no different than that outlined above for spot repair other than the. How to finish a floor with pure tung oil tutorial. He advised us tung oil would be better than urethane because we have dogs and the scratches their nails leave and i clip the nails regularly i m a dog groomer could be erased by rubbing the scratch with a cloth dipped in tung oil. Penetrating tung oil finishes come in three varieties.

When the installer installed our oak hardwood floor he put several coats of tung oil on it. Are we satisfied with the pine floors finished with tung oil after two years. This will help with your diy project with hardwood floors. Then wait for a while and repeat it again.

To keep the wide boards from cupping you ll face nail them with cut nails driven through the subfloor and into the joists photo 18. Pure tung oil oil varnish blends and wiping varnish. The tongue and groove pine flooring must run perpendicular to the floor joists. Eventually you will most likely find it necessary to recoat your entire floor.

If you are looking for the cliff s notes version then the answer is yes. I don t want the floors to turn yellow as they age. Someone recommended just tung oil. We did all the work ourselves and the unfinished pine floors and tung oil were very affordable.

Another person said water based polyurethane and you recommend oil based polyurethane.