Kitchen wooden worktop

[Nellyanderson]

Help! What type of oil / how should I be applying it to my kitchen worktop. I bought some ronseal clear oil which I applied at Christmas but it doesn't seem to have worked and the worktop is now looking faded

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• Nellyanderson
• 24 Jan 2015
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• Nellyanderson
• 24 Jan 2015
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[foxhole]

Osmo top oil

 

[Nellyanderson]

How should I apply it. Do I need to sand it all back?

 

[foxhole]

Instructions on the tin.

 

[Nellyanderson]

Wowh thanks for the advice!

 

[Nellyanderson]

Anyone else got any helpful advice / experience?? ( I'm not a complete idiot - I do generally read instructions on tins)

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I'm not sure from the phptograpnhs, but that does look as though either there's water trapping in the new coating or that there is incomatibility between the coatings. As there are several oils made by Ronson, could you post exactly which oil you used, say how many coats and what steps you took before applying the oil, please? I suspect that you may need to strip back all tHe finishes and start from scratch, but if you can supply enough information it may be possible to figure out a less drastic approach

 

[Nellyanderson]

Hi, I did 3 coats. Each time I washed the worktop down with warm soapy water, put the oil on liberally with a lint cloth then left it 10 minutes and wiped the oil off with a fresh cloth.

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• Nellyanderson
• 25 Jan 2015
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[Deleted member 174758]

How much time between washing down and oiling? Do you know what the previous finish was?

 

[Nellyanderson]

Hi, don't know what the old oil was as have just moved into house. I left it probably a good hour after washing it down before oiling & throghly dried with cloth.

I don't mind the faded look I guess I'm just worried that the oil I applied hasn't worked / been on properley.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I suspect that it wasn't fully dry and that there is water trapped between the old and new finishes (possibly that the original finish was porous and that some water was soaked into the timber grain so you were applying an oil finish onto wet wood). For future reference if I need to use water I don't flood the surface and I leave it several days to dry thoroughly. I prefer to use white spirits if at all possible because it doesn't give you so many problems. This would also account for any patchiness in finish. The only to get rid if the whiteness would be to strip completely back the the bare wood using a cabinet scraper. If you can live with the whiteness then you'll probably OK, although I don't think that the finish will last as long, that's all