How do you care for a rubberwood table/chairs?
Question:I ust bought a new table and chairs today. Do I use something like Pledge with a wax in it or not? What then? Threre are no care instructions.
Answers:
Found a couple websites here that may be of some help for you
http://www.oakplus.com/furniture_care.ht...
and this blurb :
"About Rubberwood
Rubberwood is eco-friendly and is one of the more durable lumbers used in the manufacturing of today's home furnishings. As a member of the maple family, rubberwood has a dense grain character with very little tendency to warp and crack. Rubberwood has very little shrinkage making it one of the more stable construction materials availabe for furniture and kitchen products.
Like maple, rubberwood is a sap producing species. In the case of maple, it is sap; in the case of rubberwood, it is latex. Rubberwood produces all the latex used in the world for all rubber based products.
There is one more important feature of rubberwood that is very important in today's world. Rubberwood is the most ecologically "friendly" wood in the world. After the economic life of the latex producing rubber tree, which is generally 26-30 years, the latex yields become extremely low and the planters then fell the rubber trees and plant new ones. So, unlike other woods that are cut down for the sole purpose of manufacturing, rubberwood is used only after it completes it's latex producing cycle and dies. This wood is therefore eco-friendly in the sense that we are now using what was going as waste." from http://www.ironwoodgourmet.com/index.php...
Hope that helps you a bit.
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