This makes a light floor.
Ebony stain on oak floors.
My white oak floors are turning out lovely perfect light greige color.
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He s preparing samples for me and indicated there s a technique using steel wool and vinegar process that he has used before to obtain a dark color.
The tannic acid that makes oak hardwood durable reacts with the iron metal to form dark black stain ferrous oxide on the wood floor.
Use 1 2 country white 1 4 classic grey 1 4 weathered oak.
We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains.
Minwax stain for white oak floors.
2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
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.
Continue applying coats of the acid solution until the black stain is gone.
He suggested coffee brown instead but it s not as dark as i would like.
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.
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Hardwood floors are no exception to the rule and if you find yourself in the position to need to remove black stains you might have to work hard and repeat some procedures more than once depending on the size and severity of the stain you are trying to get rid of.
If you want a slightly deeper greige use 1 2 classic grey and 1 2 weathered oak.
Oak timber does turn black on areas with nails screws handles and hedges due to the formation of iron oxide ferrous oxide.
If the stain is still present apply a second coat of oxalic acid solution to the entire piece of oak wood and allow it to dry.
Minwax stain colors on white oak floors.
Examine the black stain on the oak wood to see if it is gone.
The grey combats the yellow tannin pull from white oak.
The refinisher came and indicated that red oak floors are very difficult to get to a deep ebony finish.