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.
Red oak floors stained gray.
There are a few methods.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
Refinishing wood floors adds value to both residential and commercial properties.
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.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Left swatch duraseal fruitwood mixed with country white stain right swatch duraseal silvered gray.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
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.
Often old wooden floors can be refinished to look good again and provide years more useful life.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
We never had issues with yellowing but only lived there for another 2 years after refinishing the hardwood floors.
We stained the red oak floors in our last home with country white and then clear coated them in water based polyurethane.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.