Can i stain my red oak gray.
Gray stained red oak floors.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
We are refinishing existing 2 1 4 red oak floors that are currently a darker stain and completely replacing the floors in some rooms so we have to stick with red oak.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
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.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
You may have seen on instagram we are just wrapping up a large set of home renovation projects.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.