Stuart Noble wrote:
Brian Sharrock wrote:
What an emphatic statement ! Your experience of fitting and using
a kitchen is ... ?

Considerable, though it wouldn't need to be to understand that you can't
seal a wooden surface to the point where it could be classed as "wipe
down" without radically changing the appearance.


most people, that I've encountered do _not_ have
'a heavy duty varnish' on their kitchen work-surfaces.

Good for them. You either adopt the butcher's block approach where you
scrub it down now and again or the hygienic total seal approach. What
doesn't work IME is anything in between (e.g. massaging it weekly with
nutcase oil)

Well our experience has not been as you suggest.

We have rubberwood wortops which have been treated with Danish Oil
maybe two or three times in their over two year life. They still look
good, maybe a little darker overall than they were originally but very
little.

They wipe down absolutely fine, just as easily if not more easily than
most other worktops I've used.

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Chris Green