We recommend using their Hardwax oil to protect your flooring from damage. They offer a wide variety of colour tones that can either darken the oak, keep it lighter shades or even more white washed options. The colour tones are then finished with a hard wearing layer of Treatex Clear Hardwax oil.
How can I tone down wood that came out too orange after staining? Greg Williams: You can tone or shade using a transparent aerosol toner with a blue or green cast to it, to neutralize the orange.
The Sun's UV rays will turn the oak to a silvery hue over time. Clear products are inevitably not completely clear so they tend to 'bring out' the natural colours of the oak, normally making it a bit darker and warmer. The levels of rain, wind and sun will make a difference to how quickly the oak changes colour.
Loba or Bona lines come with water based finishes that also benefit from a sealant that prevents tannin pull. Bona Traffic HD is a true clear finish. White Oak has a history of "tannin pull" when a water based finish is used. That's why a sealant is HIGHLY recommended/required.
Oak will always look more orange when wet. For this particular piece of wood, I ended up going back over it with almost full strength stain but wiping away almost immediately. Here it is wet after applying the stain and wiping away… Simply wipe it on and then lightly wipe away the excess.
One of the most common questions were asked in the oak flooring industry is how can I protect my oak flooring, without changing the oak from its natural unfinished colour? When protecting and finishing your oak floor, we always recommend the use of a hard wax oil, such as the Fiddes Hard Wax Oil.
White Oak, if going with a natural water based finish, will require a sealant. The sealant prevents tannin pull (yellows and some light greens moving to the surface of the wood). So long as the sealant is used, a clear coat will look the same as what your wood looks like if you wet it with water.
Loba 2K Supra is a top-notch waterborne polyurethane and I highly recommend it. It is just as good as Bona Traffic HD and these are far superior to the other water based polyurethanes. It looks great, doesn't yellow and is highly durable. It also dries and hardens really quickly and is close to odorless.
After installing such beautiful natural flooring, you may wonder if it is really necessary to apply wood stain and finish products. Is it okay to leave hardwood floors unfinished? The answer is yes, you do not have to finish a hardwood floor!
No matter what your red oak wood is used to build, bleaching it with a hydrogen peroxide and lye solution will strip the color. It doesn't matter if the wood is used for furniture, beams, shelves or floors. If it's made from red oak then it can be lightened with a bleach solution.
To punch up the contrast, try painting walls (or a small accent area) in a cooler hue to help balance the space, Wadden suggests. Sherwin-Williams' Charcoal Blue has gray undertones that can cool off yellow undertones in surfaces like oak floors.
How Do You Tone Down Orange Wood? In order to neutralize orange tones, you can create a transparent aerosol toner with a cast of blue or green on it. Then use a complementary color to neutralize the orange of the stain if it doesn't have a coating.
Household Bleach
Simply wipe the wood down with bleach and let it dry. Then, you can repeat as necessary. I've also found that sitting it out in the sunlight helps. Household bleach typically removes stains or dyes but does not alter the actual color of the wood.
Most finishes exacerbate the problem leaving wood which ages to a "cigarette yellow" tone. The best way to create a pale bleached effect is to treat with a thin coat of diluted White Wood Dye after sanding. Once dry seal in with Finney s Trade Acrylic Varnish which enhances the bleached look of the stain.
Tone Finish Toners & Jet Spray Toners
are formulated to blend spot repairs to the surrounding surface. These toners are made with pigments dissolved. in nitrocellulose lacquer, very resistant to color fade from UV exposure, and are essential for repairs were a pigmented toner was used by the manufacturer.
No, white oak doesn't need to be stained. The stain alone does nothing to protect the floors; its' purpose is merely to add color.
Use peroxide bleach to lighten the natural wood color; this will not work on dye stains. Chlorine bleach is effective in lightening dye stains. Oxalic acid removes tannic acid stains, which occur in oak floors.
Best stain for white oak – Minwax natural stain on white oak. RICH EVEN COLOR – Minwax Wood Finish is a deep penetrating, oil-based wood stain that provides beautiful color and enhances the natural wood grain in one coat. It's perfect for interior staining projects such as wood furniture, cabinets, doors and more.