Wooden Floors: Treat With Linseed Oil, Firstly Heated?

[gl556tr]

_^_In both bedroom and living room we have wooden floors. Areas of the floors having consistently high wear and tear where we sit at tables require treatment to re-cover. _After rubbing down the affected areas, I have been advised that one should apply an initial layer using heated linseed oil. Maybe two. Then one more at room temperature. _Comments and suggestions are most welcome. Thank you.

[The Builder]

If you're treating only the affected areas, then it will depend on what has been used already on the rest of the floor.
I think it's going to be very difficult to match these areas afterwards. If you can, far better to re-finish the whole room.

Linseed oil is a traditional treatment, used mostly on terracotta floor tiles these days. To get a finish that really will stand up to constant traffic, I would go for modern floor varnishes.

Brands such as Junckers or Dulux Diamond Glaze are bombproof, and much easier to apply.

[Khandro]

If you want to treat bare wood with boiled linseed oil it is important that you dilute the first coat in order get maximum penetration into the grain. As you are indoors you can use low odour white spirit about 50/50 before the final coat(s).
I have had successful results using this method on outside oak doors and window frames but oil is inevitably slow drying compared to builder's suggestions of varnish, and it's not the best time of year to leave windows open to aid drying.
I don't actually think oil is a good idea for a floor and I would suggest you use a varnish, but on bare wood, I would again suggest diluting the first coat as above for the same reason.