“Do you recommend oiling your island trolleys for oak kitchens?” Question of the Week 17.07.16
“Do you recommend oiling your island trolleys for oak kitchens?”
This week we received an email from Luke in Middlesbrough who has purchased one of our kitchen island trolleys – a practical and attractive accessory for oak kitchens. Knowing that we strongly recommend oiling wooden worktops to preserve the timber, Luke wants to know whether he should oil his wooden kitchen trolley, too.
QUESTION:
“I have just purchased the wooden island trolley with tabletop from your website. I opted for the trolley with the lacquered beech frame and beech work surface as it will look great with my existing beech worktops. I’ve been oiling my wooden worktops every three to six months as you recommended: should I do the same for the worktop on the trolley?”
ANSWER:
Hi Luke,
Thanks for getting in touch! We are so pleased to hear you are giving your beautiful beech worktops the care they deserve. This regular oiling will help stop the timber from drying out – or worse, splitting – as well as maintaining its level of resistance to water and preserving its natural radiance.
You are wise to consider the requirements of the timber tabletop. Of course, the beech frame of your trolley will have been coated with a hard-wearing, stain-resistant lacquer, so it will require no further maintenance (apart from occasional cleaning with warm soapy water). The beech tabletop will have been treated slightly differently, though; instead of finishing with lacquer, our craftsman use Danish Oil to create a protective seal (it will have been given several coats before leaving our workshop).
As such, the tabletop will require further oiling – though the frequency is dependent on the amount it is used. Whilst worktops are usually subject to daily wear, this is not always the case with a kitchen trolley. If you find you are using the trolley regularly, it would be worth oiling the surface and your worktops simultaneously. However, if use isn’t that common, you need only oil the surface if it starts to lose its healthy lustre or water resistance. To test this, leave a droplet of water on the surface. If the droplet rests where it is, there is sufficient water resistance; but if the water is slowly absorbed into the timber, more oiling is required. As well as preventing the wood from drying out, this will also protect it against water marks.
When you receive your new kitchen island trolley, it would be good practice to oil the tabletop once a week for the first six weeks (this will ensure that you build up the adequate water resistance).
Please do contact us again if there’s anything else that we can help with.
Kind regards,
The Team @ Solid Wood Kitchen Cabinets
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