We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished.
Gray stain on red oak floors.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
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.
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There are a few methods.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
Minwax stain for red oak floors this week we had to choose the floor stain which i thought would be my favorite since i already had an idea of what i liked.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Be careful with the wood species.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
They don t seem to look anything like the sample we tried and have a greyer tone than we wanted.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
Dan s floor store was contracted to refinish the 1 1 2 wide solid old red oak plank floors in this circa 1950 home in the ortega neighborhood of jacksonville florida.
As part of the refinishing process our client described the look they wanted and we recommended adding a grey stain to the red oak planks during our refinishing process.
So we went with bona 1 2 medium brown and 1 2 classic grey on our red oak floors.
I wanted to match the porch ceiling wood and the exterior corbels with the wood on our floors.
Best to use white oak instead of red oak.