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.
Red oak wood floors stained gray.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
To minimize the orange effect that comes with aging oil based polyurethane protective coats we used a water based polyurethane to protect the floors.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
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.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
There are a few methods.
Be careful with the wood species.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
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.
The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color.
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22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
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.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
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.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.