We recommend you use a water dye system.
Best gray stain for maple floors.
Wood floors cover 95 of our first floor and all of our stairway and an upstairs hallway.
When using dye or stains you also must be aware of what finish system you will be using.
Before applying stain to your wood floor you need to know what species it is.
If you re interested in diy stains check out our video about making a homemade gray aged stain for white oak floors.
Read more about how to pick the best wood stain for your floors.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
Im well aware of the density of wood and blochiness it could create.
Old preexisting floors are not the best canvas to sand and refinish in a gray stain.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
For both applications the best way to start is by sanding the maple floor flawlessly.
We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray.
I just installed maple floors in my house and i im having a big concern as to how to go about staining the floors.
First a natural maple floor finished with water based finish is going to look a lot different than a maple floor that is finished with an oil based finish see pics below.
Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
Older floors typically have spacing nail and pin holes discoloration etc.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
This week we are hoping to walk you through all the ins and outs of our first foray into refinishing our wood floors.
This is ideal for all indoor wooden furniture such as doors cabinets paneling and trims.
Basically you can see wood flooring from.
Welcome to wood flooring week.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
Maple and birch are tight grained woods with very small pores and the density of the pore wall fibers varies drastically.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
Be careful with the wood species.
Im trying differnet methods conditioners as well as stains and yet i stiil cant figure out why it comes out the way it does.
Varathane weathered gray stain.
Floors made of maple birch and coniferous woods especially pine or fir are all very difficult to stain evenly.
Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.
The varathane weathered gray stain is another great tone of the oil based wood stains from this brand.
Secondly a maple floor if properly sanded and conditioned can take a stain and look absolutley stunning picture top left and another stained maple floor below.
The unique nano pigment particles technology ensures that you get a rich coat in just a single.
General finishes gray gel stain.
