Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Red oak floors stained gray.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Often old wooden floors can be refinished to look good again and provide years more useful life.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Refinishing wood floors adds value to both residential and commercial properties.
So before i get into the oak stain colors and results i thought it would be helpful to provide a few tips on choosing a hardwood floor stain.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
There are a few methods.
We never had issues with yellowing but only lived there for another 2 years after refinishing the hardwood floors.
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.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
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.
We stained the red oak floors in our last home with country white and then clear coated them in water based polyurethane.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.