I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
Gray stained red oak floors.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished.
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.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
There are a few methods.
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.
You may have seen on instagram we are just wrapping up a large set of home renovation projects.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray 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.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.