Red Oak Floors Stained Grey

The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
Red oak floors stained grey. General finishes gray gel stain. Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results. We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished. How to stain a floor white flisol home description.
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. Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in. It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next. The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
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. Best to use white oak instead of red oak white oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain. If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer. 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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