If you want those pieces to feel.
How to get red oak floor less red.
The flooring guy s staining process is probably the issue.
The reason why you didn t get the result you were expecting.
We had red oak installed in our kitchen and living room.
Like a fingerprint no board looks the same.
Over time they lightened and mellowed more a golden color we have oil base poly.
The floor still needs to be polyurethaned and that will happen later this week.
The floor looks gorgeous but in certain light looks a little pinkish or red to us.
The next step for the floor would be 2 coats of street shoe.
Below are a list of reddish stains.
Red oak flooring has a highly detailed wood grain adding a natural earth y vibe to your kitchen or bath.
Red oak is the type of wood used in many standard fixtures around the home like stairwell banisters handrails and more.
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Hardness white oak has a slightly higher janka hardness rating at 1360 compared to 1290 for red oak.
You could experiment with some different stains on scrap.
My whitewashed red oak floor isn t finished yet but we did get the most important and definitely the most difficult step finished yesterday the actual whitewashing of the wood floor.
The flooring people put 2 coats of a water based sealant on it which did not change the color.
Maybe you can get a light golden cover to shift the pink a bit.
Get a closer match to other features.
So i wanted to show you how it turned out and also share the whitewash stain formula that i ended up using.
This means that white oak is a bit more more durable and bit less prone to denting than red oak but there s really not that much in it.
After it dries it has a gray haze to it.
Both are red oak but the original floor in its raw state had a more red tone to it while the kitchen floor had a more pink orange tone to it.
My red oak floors were pinky went first installed.
Note that these colors will come out different on different floors so it s important to test.
We decided not to stain it just leave it natural.
The kitchen floor is only two years old.
But also this was another patch job.
Pre finished floors are more expensive in the beginning but the finish tends to last longer than those applied onsite to unfinished floors.
Did he pretreat the red oak by water popping before applying the stain.
They look more golden oak now vs red oak.
So for example if you have red oak floors the stains will come out different vs red oak floors red oak tends to have pink undertones so the colors are a tad redder.