Oil Finish Pine Floor

We have an old home that needed new floors.

Oil finish pine floor. Once the oil cured the floor felt a little warmer but the color stayed close to the natural color of the original unfinished pine. There are however a few one coat oil finishes on the market and it is possible to get factory finished natural oil flooring though this is often only available through specialty distributors. Lines and streaks in tung oil finish. Oil finishes unlike many varnishes won t peel or flake and often look better with age.

Types of oil commonly used to finish pine floors include. We decided to put down pine wide plank floors. And it definitely took that long for us. Through the process i found out there were two types of oil.

I assume buffing would make the floor look a little more shiny closer to satin water based poyurethane finish whcih is the look we would like but we are seriouly considering going with the oil because of the ease of touch up. One goes on first and. On oil based on pine may give quite an orange result whereas the water based may change the colour of the pine less although the combination of natural oil stain followed by sealer and then a water based finish is not one i am familiar with it could simply be the system required for a particular brand used. The one downer about oil finishes is the cure time around 30 days to be fully cured.

Apply a colorless oil to preserve the pine s natural color. Even for those varieties that require only one coat some have to be applied by hand with a rag or something similarly labor intensive. They are very beautiful but the manufacturer had us use tung oil on them.