How To Look After Your Wooden Worktops

How To Look After Your Wooden Worktops

Wooden worktops look great, but because they’re made from a natural material, they can get worn and damaged.

Manufacturers do a good job of slowing down this wear-and-tear through the manufacturing process (known as “finger jointing”) but you can do your part, too, by following these tips for healthy wooden worktops.

Real Wood Woktops – How to Maintain Them

Tip #1: Firstly, the best way to have your wooden worktops last is to make sure you buy quality. Not all hardwood worktops are equal – in fact the difference can be surprising. Quality wood will age well and cheap wood won’t. In fact, it’ll probably go downhill after a couple of years.

Tip #2: The other key to getting off on the right foot is to ensure the worktops are correctly fitted. Water is a wooden worktop’s enemy so a professional fitter will ensure that every exposed surface is properly sealed… including those areas that you can’t see. Proper sealing means 7/8 coats on the top side and at least 3 on the underside.

Tip #3: Good quality wooden worktops will take well to the oiling but they will need oil top ups from time to time. Most manufacturers will recommend about 4 times a year but for most cases around 2 coats a year will be suffice. This sounds worse that it actually is, it takes us about 10/15mins to give the worktops 1 coat of oil – the hardest part is clearing the worktops of your microwave, kettle ect. Different people recommend different oils but we use and recommend Danish oil for this.

Tip #4: Protect the surfaces from extreme heat and try to avoid placing hot pots and pans on the hardwood worktops. If you often cook a lot of things at the same time and there’s nowhere else to put them, buy an insulated pot stand or invest in some hot rods.

Tip #5: Clean up spills as quickly as possible – especially foods, sauces and liquids as the longer you leave them, the more likely they are to damage or stain your timber worktops.

At My Beautiful Kitchen, we can supply many different types of wooden worktops and throughout Scotland. We can supply hardwood worktops in Beech, Walnut, Oak to the more exotic timber work surfaces like bamboo, wenge and Zebrano.

I hope you found this post useful.

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Cheers

Tommy