5 Tips for Maintaining Kitchen Wooden Worktops

Hardwood kitchen worktops are made from strips or staves of solid wood. These strips are cut, selected, graded and kiln dried to ensure a moisture level suitable for domestic interior use, before they are glued together to form one homogenous panel perfect for given your kitchen that sophisticated look. To keep the timber worktop in prestige condition over time it is important to maintain it and as time goes by even treat the wood. Now that we explained its construction lets look at how to maintain it.

5 Essential Tips for Maintaining Kitchen Wooden Worktops:

1. Always apply care - When you first install the worktop it is important to remember that its construction is already highly durable, still like any other worktop treat it well and avoid dragging heavy items on its surface which might result in scaring or denting.

2. How to fix denting - If you managed to dent the worktop not all is lost. Spray some water on the dent, place a dump textile fabric on top of the dent and iron the surface. Quality wooden worktop should react well to this fix and raise back.

3. Apply the occasional oil coating - Quality wooden worktops have been oiled well before the installation phase, despite this it does require the occasional top up. Contact your local kitchen supplier and buy timber worktop re-coating oil to apply every three months or so.

4. Fight stains and liquid spills - When it comes to stains, liquid spills and food residue you really cannot afford to leave those for long. Other than the clear hygienic concerns you should have, mopping up quickly will prevent the liquids from penetrating the wood and leaving stains.

5. Keep warn pans and plates away - When working in the kitchen it is very easy to get distracted and place warm pans on the worktop straight from the hot cooking stove. While quality worktops should not react badly to this, other poorer quality wooden worktops might, therefore consider staying on the safe side and use a coaster.

Wood and Beyond has a range of high quality kitchen wooden worktops from premium oak to premium walnut.

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