Both darken the wood somewhat and impart a rich tone that looks especially attractive on yellow pine.
How to finish pine floors with tung oil.
Pure tung oil finish.
This leaves the pine with a more natural appearance.
We used 6 coats and its super smooth soft matte finish.
We finished our wide pine floor boards that were from a mill same pine we installed on the walls with dark tung oil.
Lemon or walnut oil which are considered specialty oils and may be more expensive.
This will help with your diy project with hardwood floors.
Types of oil commonly used to finish pine floors include.
We have an old home that needed new floors.
Tung oil or china wood oil is a drying oil obtained by pressing the seed from the nut of the tung tree vernicia fordii.
Lines and streaks in tung oil finish.
Tung oil which has a relatively low level of sheen.
One goes on first and.
Choose either tung oil or boiled linseed oil.
How to finish a floor with pure tung oil tutorial.
Linseed oil which is tarry and so brings out the grain of the pine.
We decided to put down pine wide plank floors.
Because the tung oil is absorbed into the wood you aren t chipping or scratching a finish so it s not as noticeable to begin with.
They are very beautiful but the manufacturer had us use tung oil on them.
Through the process i found out there were two types of oil.