Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
Red oak floors stained gray.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
We stained the red oak floors in our last home with country white and then clear coated them in water based polyurethane.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
Refinishing wood floors adds value to both residential and commercial properties.
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.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
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.
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.
There are a few methods.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
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.