How to Oil the Wood Flooring?

Over time, your wood flooring may begin to discolor or crack. In order to avoid this situation, you need to oil your wood flooring regularly, which helps to protect the appearance of the engineered wood flooring. But before that, you need to know about the benefits of oiling wood flooring and how to do it.

Benefits of Oiling Wood Flooring

First, oiling the wood flooring can prolong its service life and restore the appearance of the wood flooring. In addition, the oil can protect the surface of the wood flooring from scratching. In addition, oiling the wood flooring has the following benefits.

Prevent Wood Flooring from Drying

Without the protection of oil, the moisture in the wood flooring will gradually lose. After moisture decreases, the laminate wood flooring can become easy to crack. If you sprinkle water directly on the wood flooring, it will not only not replenish water for the solid wood flooring, but will make it damage faster. If you oil the wood flooring, the oil can also prevent moisture from damaging the wood flooring.

Prevent Pet from Damaging Wood Flooring

If you have pets at home, they may damage the light wood flooring when they run on it, because their claws are very sharp. Therefore, in order to avoid the wood flooring being damaged, you can oil the wood flooring to protect it. In addition, oil can repair some slight scratches.

How to Oil the Wood Flooring?

Preparation before Oiling

If you have oiled your oak hardwood flooring before, you can apply the oil directly to the surface of the wood flooring. For floors with different finishes, such as varnish, you need to sand the surface until you get to the bare wood. This is to prevent you from applying another layer of oil to the existing oil. If you don't want to sand the oil from the waterproof wood flooring, you can apply a layer of the same oil to the wood flooring.

Before oiling, you need to clean all the stains on the painted wood flooring, otherwise these stains will be covered by oil. When the oil solidifies, you won't be able to clean up the stains, which will damage the appearance of the wood flooring.

When oiling, you also need to make sure the room is well ventilated. This is to ensure that the oil fumes can be blown out of the room by the wind. If there is a lot of oil fumes left indoors, it will affect human health.

The Steps of Oiling

First use the brush to stir the oil in the barrel so that all its ingredients can be mixed together.

Then use a brush or roller to oil the waterproof wood flooring. When oiling, brushes and rollers are best moved along the grains of the wood flooring. In addition, you need to apply oil evenly on the wood flooring.

Before applying another layer of oil, you need to wait for the applied oil to dry. Depending on the type of oil, you need to apply 1 to 3 layers of oil to the staining wood flooring.

Reference

Direct Wood Flooring, Oiling Wood Floors: How-to and FAQ