Older floors typically have spacing nail and pin holes discoloration etc.
Grey red oak floor stains.
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Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
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.
The dark gray will help hide and drown out the red tones.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
Every single piece of wood took on a gray hue including the red oak.
Old preexisting floors are not the best canvas to sand and refinish in a gray stain.
22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Best to stain gray on a brand new installed floor.
I really wanted a gray floor but due to the nature of the red tone in red oak floor is very hard to achieve the color.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
Which also means the wood grains still show through the stain color.
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.
Classic gray tends to be slightly blotchy so make sure to use pre conditioner with this stain color.
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.
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.
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We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished.