Timber Benchtops

Advantages of Timber Benchtops:

📌 Creates a warm and inviting feel for a kitchen.

📌 Timber is cost effective, more so than natural stones, and weighs much less.

📌 Timber is a sustainable material and offers excellent longevity and can easily be sanded.

📌 Timber benches can easily be repurposed.

📌 The finish of a timber benchtop can easily tie in with other finishes within an interior, such as the timber selection for flooring.

📌 With general wear and tear of the benchtop, through stains, bumps, scratches, this can add to an aesthetic appeal and character, and provide a rustic look overtime.

Disadvantages of Timber Benchtops:

📌 Timber needs to be regular maintained, wiping up spills quickly, and ensure that water doesn’t sit on the benchtop, as it will easily discolour the timber.

📌 Timber will need to be regularly sanded and refinished with a oil or polyurethane based product. Ensure that the product is suitable for a kitchen benchtop (i.e., food safe). Often the whole bench will need to be redone, as apposed to small sections.

📌 Timber is soft, and much softer and less dense than other benchtop materials and can be of a disadvantage, dents, scratches, and the like will appear more easily.

📌 Deeps stains are not easily removed, even with sanding and refinishing.

📌 Timber won’t necessarily suit all styles of kitchens.

📌 Timber is not as hygienic as other benchtop materials, so if this needs to be considered, it is best to avoid timber.

📌 Timber benches can scorch easily, so be careful with hot pans/pots and cooktops.