Tung Oil and Tung Oil blends such as Milk Paint make the short list of our best pine floor finish products. Pure Tung oil has been trusted for thousands of years as a water-resistant wood finish. Ships used Tung Oil because of the ease of repair, yes ships on water. We realize you thought boats had Vinyl or Engineered hulls because the way each handles water but no, all real wood finished with natural oils. Tung oil is FDA approved as food safe, butcher blocks, and cutting boards where it again encounters water.
Pure Tung Oil Finish
Tung oil or China wood oil is a drying oil obtained by pressing the seed from the nut of the Tung tree (Vernicia fordii). The oil and its use are believed to have originated in ancient China and appear in the writings of Confucius from about 400 BC. Not that we are directing you away from this thousand-year-old 100% natural product, but it takes a serious commitment. Regular reapplication is a must—once a week for a month, once a month for a year, once a year ever after,” as the saying goes. The results can be gorgeous, as long as you have the necessary patience.
Pine and Tung Oil
But what about Tung Oil and Southern Pine? Every single finish, customer project using oils looks amazing, it is about time certainly not the protection. After drying time, this oil finish forms a protective final coat over top of the surface to which it’s been applied. As for Southern Pine and Heart Pine our experience has been with blends or additive products, such as Milk Paint. However, as long as you are using 50% or greater Tung Oil you can get that amazing protection which looks great on pine.
Penetrating oil look & ‘Green’
Why do we love it? Two reasons; Unlike almost everything else imported from China, Tung Oil is ‘Green’. And Tung oil “makes pine pop”. Nothing deepens the contrast and colors of our #2 Knotty Pine more perfectly. Oils period, and certainly Tung Oil (s) have many detractors, but they make some gorgeous floors. And by detractors we mean installation professionals. Most are not keen to 4-5 coats and 2-day cure with sanding in between. SYP Direct can help you with that problem, find out more.
About SYP Direct
What about SYP Direct makes us so unique? Southern Yellow Pine Direct aka SYP Direct is the only true online pine flooring mill. Furthermore, Our mill partnership (s) allows us to manufacture using custom specifications aka milled to specs or milled to order. Milled to order is a really big deal. How so? Nothing is sitting around on a shelf waiting to be. matched with another run, weeks later. Every board of your floor comes from the same timber milled at the same time; we have no inventory. Milled to order and direct from the mill floor eliminates the retailer with all their overhead.
