Restain Oak Floors

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Restain oak floors. The problem is while you may think darker colors would hide dirt they make dust particles more noticeable. Now that you have a home full of beautiful floors keep them looking new by sweeping and mopping regularly using furniture pads and exercising caution with hard soled shoes. Refinishing hardwood floors is the right solution. Store and dispose of oil soaked rags properly.

I use a simple product and a simple process to do this. Interior trim floors and furniture. What you need to know about dark floor stains. Unlike some hardwoods oak continues to be relatively abundant and most oak floors are solid wood.

Remove all the furniture and spray the floor with a hardwood flooring cleaner or your own mix of 10 parts water to 1 part white vinegar. When a wood floor loses its luster the usual solution is to sand it down to raw wood and completely refinish it. Situations differ but you may not be able to refinish your hardwood floor more than 10 times. Oak is a strong hard type of wood known for its stability.

Flooring experts estimate that hardwood floors can be sanded for refinishing up to 10 times depending on the thoroughness of the sanding and the level of wear and tear on the floor. Read these 6 steps for refinishing the wood floors in your home. I m sharing how to restain wood without stripping today. That was popular in country decor back then and clashes with my current kitchen cabinets which are more of a dark oak color.

You can use it for just about anything. 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 father in law is going to give me the hardest time for this post. Oak wood has a porous quality to it which makes it very absorbent of staining materials.

But often that s the wrong solution. Experts say you can refinish traditional hardwood floors up to 10 times so with a bit of care your floors should last and remain beautiful for a lifetime. 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. We actually installed the shaw vinyl wood floors in the house hello 2 great danes a pool kids.

All wood floors are protected by a clear coating that eventually becomes scratched scuffed and dull. 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. One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that. He should marry it.

Red and white oak are the most common types used in america with white oak being the cheaper variety. He loves it so much.