With Christmas fast approaching, it's a great time to ensure your kitchen space is in order. Even if there's no upcoming occasion, it's worthwhile sorting out your kitchen surfaces.


Why Choose a Wooden Worktop?

Many people dont realise why it's more cost-effective to have an oak worktop over a laminate one. First of all, oak worktops look much better than laminated alternatives but most importantly, when your oak wood worktop gets damaged due to general wear and tear, you can sand it down and re-finish it with oil to give it a new lease of life.

This makes oak worktops a cheaper alternative in the long rung due to the durable properties of an oiled wooden worktop. This is the process we will be covering in today's blog!


Sanding Your Worktop

Wooden worktop surfaces can be prepared pre-sanding to make it easier to work for the electric sander. Surface preparation is done with methylated spirits or with a scraper, what you use will depend on the texture of the wood you plan to work with.

Sanding your worktop can be a long process if you dont have the right tools for the job, this is why in the video we used an electric surface sander instead of using hand help sandpaper. Using an electric sander makes the job faster and easier for the user by a huge margin.

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Re-finishing Your Worktop

This video will show you how to re-finish a wood worktop quickly and easily with tung oil. In this video, we will show you the process of oiling an oak worktop with tung oil.

If your want to know how to re-oil a wooden worktop, then this video will show you from start to finish how to apply oil to a worktop professionally. 

Tung oil is the perfect solution for kitchen worktops because it is effective at protecting a surface from water damage also it's food safe. This process is the one that has to be done secondly after doing the sanding process mentioned above.

When oiling your worktop, you need to know that you need to protect the surfaces surrounding the wood. Using an appropriate brush or masking tape can prevent surfaces adjacent to wooden worktops such as sinks, walls and ovens.

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