The installation of solid (real) wood floors involves several steps not necessary with either laminate or engineered (single-use) flooring.
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) is a term used to refer to organic chemical compounds that evaporate while drying (volatile). Products that contain VOCs release vapors during use and storage that are often harmful to both humans and the environment.
The main distinction between urethane or an oil finish; one sits on top the other penetrates. Beyond that simple definition you get into specific products and there are too many for that exercise.
The waste factor is not all about defects, in fact the defects cuts outs should never equal more than 10%. Unfinished real wood flooring is not like sticking down a laminate or clicking together an engineered floor
But what about Tung Oil and Southern Pine? Every single finish, customer project using oils looks amazing, it is about time certainly not the protection.
Buying a wood floor unfinished means you are going to finish on site versus prefinished. A site finished floor using Tung Oil much different than Monocoat, more on that later.
At SYP Direct we do not stage pictures, these are actual Caribbean Heart Pine customer pictures.
Biloxi Blue seen above is a Monocoat finish, the 2-c process which allows for the undercoat. The 2-C look allows you to “shadow” the edges and other aging techniques. Finishing pine floors is easy if you can follow some simple steps, not to mention Monocoat which is of course, one step.