Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
Gray stained red oak floors.
It barely soaked into the oak at all but looked much darker on the maple.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
There are a few methods.
Varathane weathered gray stain.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
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.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
You may have seen on instagram we are just wrapping up a large set of home renovation projects.
We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished.
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.
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.
Pine and birch were both splotchy and inconsistent.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
See also red oak floor stain samples oakhardwoodflooring flooring.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
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.
22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.