How To Gray Wash A Plywood Floor

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How to gray wash a plywood floor.

Mix a small amount of light grey latex paint and water into a plastic cup. White washing a wood floor. I want to mop and freshen the bare plywood floor in our unfinished attic. The cheap stuff tip.

I d like to use a solution that sanitizes if possible. I ve already swept and vacuumed it. The practice of white washing wood has been around for a long time but grey washing wood has been gaining popularity in recent years. I used a mixture of about 1 part paint to 4 parts water using cil stratosphere the color color matched into sherwin williams paint at the store.

We started with sheets of cdx plywood. Allow the paint mixture to set for 3 5 seconds then rub over the white wash paint strokes with a staining rag to smear the paint mixture into the wood. Allow it to fully dry. Try to get the sheets with less ink writing on them.

But my priority is not to damage the wood. This totally depends on your floor paint. There is an oily patch left by the former. How to grey wash wood.

We didn t use primer with our floor paint. The floor is not filthy but there was rodent activity. This will be a light grey wash. Apply the white wash to the wood in long strokes with a paint brush.

Achieve this look by lightly applying the darker shade of gray using a coarse bristle brush to a 2x4 foot section of floor. How to clean unfinished plywood floor. Apply a white wash mixture to the wood using one about 1 part water to 1 part white paint. It actually wasn t too bad of a project.

To give our floors more depth we added two shades of gray over the whitewash. First let me just tell you i m a first timer. Immediately afterward use a different brush to add the lighter gray tone. How to stain and protect plywood floor please subscribe and follow our project web.