Pine Wood Floor Finishes

With yellow pine floors the color of the floors doesn t change very much.

Pine wood floor finishes.

How to finish pine outdoor furniture. Brush up on the basics of 8 popular options before choosing yours. Pine is not only a very soft wood even syp but fairly porous and needs multiple coats of some sort of film finish. Penetrating finishes provide a low sheen and take longer to dry than surface finishes.

Penetrating finishes in contrast penetrating finishes sink into the wood so when you touch the floor surface you are actually touching wood. So what would be a good base for pine. Sand after each coat with 400 grit paper. These types of finishes include linseed oil tung oil and various specialty oils such as lemon walnut soy and danish oil a mixture of oil and varnish.

The one downer about oil finishes is the cure time around 30 days to be fully cured. Once the oil cured the floor felt a little warmer but the color stayed close to the natural color of the original unfinished pine. The most natural but least water resistant film finish is. Hardwood floor finishes have varying levels of ease durability even glossiness.

Penetrating finishes infiltrate wood pores and fibers for a beautiful decorative finish. They provide some of the most visually attractive wood finish types. Pine can look beautifully pale when sanded and then once you apply a finishing product particularly a clear one it will highlight the natural tones in the wood with pine this can be red yellow or pink or somewhere in between and this is probably what is showing through on your floor. Applying a finish to deck or patio pine furniture is essential to protect the wood for outdoor elements such as wind rain and sun damage and give it a clean bright look.

It also keeps pitch sealed in the wood. Without shellac pine s pitch can bleed into oil based finishes leaving fissures or shiny spots that remain tacky especially around knots. Seal the surface with two coats of 2 lb cut dewaxed shellac. Oils are a traditional softwood finish that will penetrate deep into the pine flooring.

And it definitely took that long for us. Best hardwood floor finish for high traffic. Shellac prepares the dyed surface for glazing step 4. Types of oil commonly used to finish pine floors include.

Oil finishes unlike many varnishes won t peel or flake and often look better with age. Although in my opinion 4 coats of satin polyurethane makes the very best finish for a pine floor there are many alternatives. Apply a colorless oil to preserve the pine s natural color. Most are oil based with the most common types being tung oil and linseed oil.