Tongue Oil For Floors

Our tung oil is a great wood finish that penetrates deep into the wood.

Tongue oil for floors.

Pure tung oil oil varnish blends and wiping varnish. How to treat reclaimed hardwood floors with pure tung oil. 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. I sprayed a mix of 2 parts citrus solvent to 1 part tung oil on the floors in sections.

How to finish a floor with pure tung oil tutorial. Creates water resistant surface and is non toxic child friendly. It looks beautiful and restored a lot of the lustre in the floors. Minwax tung oil finish creates a remarkably durable hand rubbed luster in minutes.

It is a preferred finish for gun stocks and didgeridoos. Tung oils must be thinned with a solvent before use. Then i buffed it with a high powered buffer borrowed from my in laws. While polymerized tung oils dry faster than pure ones a tung oil floor usually takes 30 days to fully cure and should be treated carefully for the first few months.

Real milk paint offers an already thinned version called half half that does the work for you. Easy to maintain it is the ideal protective finish for woods that have been refinished because it penetrates wood pores to restore vitality to dry thirsty wood. This will help with your diy project with hardwood floors. Whether it s old worn tobacco barn wood from the heart of the countryside or darkened planks from the stables of an 1800s plantation.

Penetrating tung oil finishes come in three varieties. I used a clean t shirt to buff the floors and went over the most trafficked areas twice. Tung oil is suited to wooden floors interior and exterior woodwork including decks window and other wooden joinery kitchen tables and bench tops chopping boards concrete stone and terracotta surfaces rammed earth floors and children s toys.