Red Oak Floors Stained Gray
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
Red oak floors stained gray. Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring. There are a few methods. Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors. If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results. Left swatch duraseal fruitwood mixed with country white stain right swatch duraseal silvered gray.
Can i stain my red oak gray. Ginger if you have red oak and want to do some form of gray you will either need to bleach the floors first or choose a darker gray. White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain. Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray. Refinishing wood floors adds value to both residential and commercial properties. Often old wooden floors can be refinished to look good again and provide years more useful life. As part of the refinishing process our client described the look they wanted and we recommended adding a grey stain to the red oak planks during our refinishing process.