Refinishing Oak Floors Darker
I need the floors to be cooler in color so not as yellow or red as a natural oak.
Refinishing oak floors darker. 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. My oak floors are covered in scratches. How to refinish light oak to dark. As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones. How to refinish solid oak flooring. Susan bankhead meridian idaho. If the scratches don t go all the way through to the wood you can scuff sand your floors with a buffer and apply a fresh coat or two of finish.
My father in law is going to give me the hardest time for this post. Do i have to sand down to bare wood to get rid of them. The best way to refinish wood floors without sanding is to use a technique called screen and recoat. The problem is while you may think darker colors would hide dirt they make dust particles more noticeable.
The wood on my floors is red oak. Some pros refer to this as sandless refinishing but that can also refer to a different method that substitutes a chemical etcher for the buffer. One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that. I have had at least 25 conversations with.
You finally decided on the perfect hardwood for your floors whether that s a deep rich walnut a warm cherry wood or a rustic oak. Hi there i live in estes park colorado and i m trying to convince the floor guy that i want a darker finish on my 80 year old red oak floors. While there are many species of hardwood fit for flooring. I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right.
Two key questions for many home improvement buffs planning an oak refinishing project are whether to darken the wood s coloring and if so how to do it. The editors of this old house reply. 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. He should marry it.
The poly finish is satin. If you decide to refinish your wood floors the fun part is picking a new stain color like rich mahogany or dark oak which are both very popular right now. He loves it so much.