5 Easy Steps To Protect Your Oak Dining Table
For centuries, oak wood has been a popular material for constructing home wooden furniture because of its strength, durability and beauty. The lifespan of oak wood is nearly about 250-275 years, and oak wooden furniture will live up to 20-25 years if cared properly but it’s common to have dents, marks and scratches on the oak furniture. In order to get rid out of all these things, you need to follow all the given steps. Here are the easy steps to protect you oak dining table:
- Avoid: Always try to avoid direct heat & sunlight which means do not place your oak dining table next to a source of direct sunlight or heat. This can cause color fading, excessive dryness, difficult to repair cracks of body component.
- Clean Up Spills: If you want to extend the lifespan of your oak furniture, always try to clean any spills and water off from the surface of you oak furniture because the oak wood is porous so it will easily soak up the water that will easily damage the finish & lead to staining. You can easily use a clean dry or paper towel to clean up the spills.
- Move: If you want to move your oak furniture from one place to another, then you need to use sliders or rollers and also safety pad to protect you floor too.
- Protect: Always protect the finish of your oak furniture. Do not expose oak furniture to strong cleaning agents, wine, water, coffee, or other types of liquids. Some types of modern finishes can easily be cleaned with the help of damp (not soggy), lightly soaped towel. Antique finishes can be more gossamer, so test an unnoticeable area of your oak furniture and then you have to wait for a few minutes to see what happens to the applied area before proceeding.
- Repair: Repair any dents or marks as soon as they seem to happen. You can repair slight damages to your oak furniture. You can use furniture markers and putties to fix small chips on the surface of your oak furniture. In order to repair a dent or mark in unfinished oak furniture, try swelling the ding back out also put a damp cloth (cotton) over the spot & place the tip of your warm iron onto the cloth so the wood rises up easily. Once this blemish is dry wholly, sand it down by using a fine-grain sandpaper, then apply oil on your oak furniture.