There are variables as to which oil to use on the floors, though many mixes are in the store with chemicals galore, so I often kept it simple. Here is what is in store for the most reasonable prices. Fewer chemicals to breathe, for health, is the treasure that I see as most valuable in life.
If you start with good wood that is full of color and use oils to set them off, colors using milk paint won’t be toxic, or if you like, organic linseed oil paints, one of the most expensive of them all. I like oils and have used colors knowing they will fade or even using what was painted on by those now in their graves. The oils can preserve many things, including wood and paint, but in the Texas sun, you will nearly always have to paint or oil to make the wood last, with a few exceptions. Cypress and the Long Leaf Pine can last through a century and then taste and suck up oil to look like they may have hardly aged, though they are a thousand years from their birth in a far-off place.
Why not use the best to build with… or grow your business of creating chicken houses, Bee Hives, or Treehouses on the chance that you will show that Salvage builds nearly anything? Join me in celebrating the things that come to a nation that respects it heritage, the things that our ancestors did. Do not throw out everything and say only Walmart and IKEA are the proper places to see how to live in the future and choose a city, a THOW to give. What are you seeking in the long run to homestead and to grow a future for the children born who the parents want to take away the toxic things that the city brings as it goes full-tilt along with the 5G, six then realize something has gone wrong?
Look at all the things to do to create an escape for those who do think that the time may come to go out of the city for a break to show the kids there is another world than where you work, pay bills, eat junk food at home and watch the TV sports and things that no one may need to know. Savor the floors and the tiny spaces that you, too, could build and create the place where some delusions never need to be faced. Social distancing while working hard to form your dreams is not an issue if you love what you do.
Savor the dayz with gratitude, and if you decide to create with Mii, I will help you all I can to form a path to let that be a way for others to form the place where they can help grow each other’s dreams by creating Co-op that provides the place to build a tiny home. Local education with community support will save a battered nation in need of housing soon before the winter sets in and many die because they have no place to hide from the cold.
Here is more information on oiling and maintaining your wood floors without professionals charging an arm and a leg to sand them off.
Just Rejuvenate it instead of thinking it is dead.
Here is a faster-than-it takes to load these videos in this series method of using Tung oil, mineral spirits, and elbow grease with a squidgy sponge or, in some cases, a rag to spray and spread it all around.
Just how long?
Just how liberal?
When do you wipe it off?
How long before you Walk upon it.?
How long before it’s safe?
What are the dangers? Consequences?
How can this all go wrong?
You should read the article and watch the video, too.
That is the best way possible to see what you can do.
Gratitude for sharing or liking. This will help you and others who have old houses with dried floors and need this.
If I can get them loaded, more secrets to success, factoids to remember, and wisdom from the salvage business on the other videos in this series.
Stay healthy and authentic,
Brad W. Kittel
Can several oils pass this hard "Woody test?" Yes! Tung use, mix, & how to spread it best?