As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look.
Gray stained red oak floors.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
Old red oak plank floors refinished with grey stain ortega april 16 2018 0 comments in wood floor refinishing by admin dan s floor store was contracted to refinish the 1 1 2 wide solid old red oak plank floors in this circa 1950 home in the ortega neighborhood of jacksonville florida.
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.
See also red oak floor stain samples oakhardwoodflooring flooring.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Pine and birch were both splotchy and inconsistent.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Varathane weathered gray 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.
It barely soaked into the oak at all but looked much darker on the maple.
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.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
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Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
The color of the varathane weathered gray stain varied widely depending on the wood species.