plastic coating on solid oak worktop

dermonte

Our new kitchen is nearly finished. We have a rustic oak worktop that we wanted plastic coating on it but our builder said today that they dont recommend it. We already bought the stuff too with the kitchen. What do you think? They say if you use plastic coating you wont be able to treat it regularly with an oil and it wil wear off around sink and you wont be able to do anything about it. We have an inset stainless steel sink So I asked grooves on side of sink but joiner said he is not willing to do it. Is that normal that they refuse to do things? Otherwise than that they did a good job with removing toilet walls and 2 main walls then relocating toilet somewhere else.

forgotmyname

Its OK as long as their is no moisture in the wood and its in a stable enviroment. If you trap moisture in there it turns milky and may lift in patches.

But they should do what you are paying them to, if you want it done then they should do it.

Do they have a proper carpenter though? Is this work that was originally agreed or additional work?

dermonte

Builder said they can use it on a sample to show me how it will look. According to him just oil is better as you can oil it regularly then? And yes he is proper carpenter. He is very experienced according to company who is contracting him. We are using a building company who is using contracters for electrics, plastering, joiner etc lol. I never asked them to do the groving as I thought howdens do this since I asked them a grooved work top. Builder said they dont do it. So he asked to joiner if he is willing to do it and he said no. Is it a hard job to cut grooves on a work top? I do like the job they did generally. So I asked them today to fit a new bathroom too. Hope I wont regret it lol thanks for the reply.

karen_123

It sounds like you have proffesional tradespeople,I would heed their advice and treat the worktops the way they advise.
It would be easy for them to just do a bodge job and take the money but the fact they wont should give you confidence in their work.
We used Ronseal antibacterial worktop oil.