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.
Red oak floors stained gray.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
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.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
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.
We stained the red oak floors in our last home with country white and then clear coated them in water based polyurethane.
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.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.