Linseed oil which is tarry and so brings out the grain of the pine.
How to finish pine floors with 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.
This leaves the pine with a more natural appearance.
Lines and streaks in tung oil finish.
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.
Through the process i found out there were two types of oil.
We used 6 coats and its super smooth soft matte finish.
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.
Tung oil which has a relatively low level of sheen.
Pure tung oil finish.
Choose either tung oil or boiled linseed oil.
Types of oil commonly used to finish pine floors include.
One goes on first and.
How to finish a floor with pure tung oil tutorial.
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.
The oil and its use are believed to have originated in ancient china and appear in the writings of confucius from about 400 bc.
We decided to put down pine wide plank floors.
We have an old home that needed new floors.