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.
Grey red oak floor stains.
Best to stain gray on a brand new installed floor.
Every single piece of wood took on a gray hue including the red oak.
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Older floors typically have spacing nail and pin holes discoloration etc.
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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.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
I m having my brand new red oak floor stain in a few days.
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.
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Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
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.
I have learned so much about flooring with all the information on your blog.
We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished.
Which also means the wood grains still show through the stain color.
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The dark gray will help hide and drown out the red tones.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
This classic gray stain creates the perfect weathered look without over saturating with too much gray.
Old preexisting floors are not the best canvas to sand and refinish in a gray stain.