WOODEN KITCHEN WORKTOPS

Wooden kitchen worktops information

Wood is a natural product and ideal for kitchen worktops, which, with regular care, becomes more and more beautiful over the years. This living material feels good, spreads warmth and guarantees a pleasant room climate. Wood can be repaired, altered or revamped. No one can resist the atmosphere of solid wood. Its inimitable surface urges you to touch it at once.

Our wooden kitchen worktops range will leave you spoilt for choice when planning your kitchen. We offer nine different attractive types of wood ranging from beech, the classical and commonly used wood surface at a lower price level, to Walnut which belongs to the premium price segment. A speciality of this programme is bamboo which is a kind of grass in the botanical sense. Bamboo can be reproduced very quickly and is permanently available. It is used in different fields all over the world. There is no raw material which is harder, more elastic and more robust. The bamboo of our collection has a warm caramel colour.
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Beech Kitchen worktops Beech Kitchen worktops are very popular and seen a lot over recent years in all types of furniture. It is pale, light tan wood with darker colour flecks which add to the character. It is between Maple and Ash in style and colour.

Oak kitchen worktops Oak kitchen wortops are extremely strong and durable and usually has some 'character', particularly in long lengths. Oak worktops may include a few small clean knots. Oak will simply last forever with maintenance and will consistently look better year by year.

Cherry kitchen worktops Cherry kitchen worktops is in our experience one of the best wooden kitchen worktops. After six months the wood will deepen in colour until it becomes a rich, bronze, ochre. It is a perfect choice for kitchens, particularly if you are looking for a darker wood with a decorative grain pattern.

Maple kitchen worktops An excellent straight grained white wood ideal for kitchen worktops. The colour and grain pattern tends to be very consistent, wide and uniform apart from a bit of colour here and there. It is also very popular as a wood for kitchen doors.

Iroko kitchen worktops Iroko kitchen worktops are stable for wooden kitchen worktops, solid, heavy timber from Africa, similar to teak. It is naturally oily so has a head start for the maintenance programme. It starts pale brown but deepens quite quickly to a rich brown. Often used as a contrasting wood to compliment paler cabinets or floor.

Oak kitchen worktops Oak kitchen worktops are extremely strong and durable and usually has some 'character', particularly in long lengths. Oak worktops may include a few small clean knots. Oak will simply last forever with maintenance and will consistently look better year by year.

Walnut kitchen worktops A classic European hardwood of immense character and warmth. Our Walnut kitchen worktops have fantastic grain patterns and colour variation.

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Bamboo kitchen worktops Bamboo kitchen worktops are supplied square edged and sanded to a super smooth 150 grit finish. Natural Bamboo worktops feature full length narrow 7mm wide staves which run the full length of the worktop, (not finger jointed, cheaper, poorer quality as found on other websites), these are the new European specification worktops offered for sale in the UK for the first time. These worktops will add a visual impact 2nd to none to your kitchen.

Wenge kitchen worktops Wenge kitchen worktops are a very beautiful exotic dark hardwood. Wenge is extremely dense and hard wearing with a tight structure of nearly black grains separated by dark brown grains. A Grade - The Highest quality available on the market.

Wooden kitchen worktops installation

Follow this guide for a perfect wooden kitchen worktops installation that will provide a lifetime of good service. The guide explains and sets out the requirements and procedures for fitting.
Wooden kitchen worktops are made from solid staves with a moisture content of 10 - 11% at time of manufacture. They are designed to be used in normally heated, furnished domestic interiors.
Timber is a natural material and is affected by changes in temperature and humidity. It expands and contracts naturally across the grain. Observance of the correct installation procedure carried out in properly conditioned interiors will prevent any problems from occurring.
The manufacturers will not be liable for failure of wooden kitchen worktops that arises from poor installation, the wrong fittings and materials being used, inappropriate or adverse site conditions or any other failure to follow the installation procedures and requirements set out in this guide and the care and maintenance routines.

Solid wooden kitchen worktops is a hygroscopic material which adapts to the indoor climate conditions and can thus absorb and emit humidity. Therefore, make sure that the room climate is well-balanced and that the relative humidity is 50±5 %. If solid wood is constantly exposed to a high degree of humidity, the worktop tends to distort and to change in dimension.

Household appliances which steadily emit heat downwards (e.g. permanent use of a coffee machine) must be put on a heat-resisting pad. Please adhere to that, as otherwise discolouration, dehydration and cracks may arise at some points. However, smaller cracks in solid wood are very natural.

Danish oil is the best for the re-oiling of the wooden worktops surface and instructions are provided.

Remove normal dirt by means of washing-up liquid or soap water. Do not use caustic or scrubbing detergents.

Treat stubborn spots by means of an abrasive sponge (P 180) or abrasive paper (P 240).

The above mentioned cleaning methods (especially abrasion) normally require repeated re-oiling.

Remaining moisture or liquids on the wooden worktops for a longer period of time (wet sponge, plates, cups,  etc. ) must be avoided and, in particular, immediately removed on the joint.

Immediate re-oiling is essential in case of appearance of water stains.