Duraseal Weathered Oak On Red Oak Floors
Choosing a stain color for our red oak hardwood floors.
Duraseal weathered oak on red oak floors. Duraseal is the professional line of minwax and is what the pros use. Looking for suggestions for wood floor stain for red oak. To seal our floors we had 3 coats of bona waterborne in satin applied. A penetrating quick drying.
We have new red oak and will have the existing red oak sanded. Happy i didn t go with any of the gray floors. Lisa in general no as it s so dark. The picture shows duraseal stains from l r weathered oak provincial nutmeg and early american.
Dura seal penetrating finish is a semi transparent stain formulated to seal. Natural wood tones vary so expect your final stain color to vary slightly from board to board. The oil will yellow so the gray that s mixed in won t look right and it will yellow more over time. Weathered oak on 2 red oak flooring is gorgeous.
The classic gray is quite dark so i suspect that maybe 75 weathered oak and 25 classic gray would be lighter. Test on your floor to see. It s been a bi polar month. We wanted a light neutral brown while trying to avoid any pink red yellow and orange undertones as best as possible.
I thought choosing an exterior paint color was hard. Taking pics tomorrow a little delayed. Most pros can mix any option for sample purposes. Reason being weathered oak pulls out so many colors including gray anyway.
This is the normal aging effect of oil based polyurethane which was used to protect the floors. Duraseal quick coat golden oak 112 oil based wood floor stain quart. But on the red oak floors it may have a subtle green undertone due to the red oak red and green are opposites. Colors are shown on white oak.
And your flooring guys are wrong. Our last home had the same flooring and we had refinished those floors with duraseal country white stain. Sep 23 2014 it s been a while since i ve posted pictures of house progress so get cozy this is a long one. See more ideas about hardwood floor colors red oak floors oak floor stains.
Duraseal quick coat weathered 170 oil based wood floor stain quart.