How To Stain A Maple Hardwood Floor

Luckily many brands already offer pre stained maple hardwood planks so you don t really need to go down the diy staining route unless you really have a very unique or custom blend color in mind.

How to stain a maple hardwood floor.

Since maple is so dense you need to open up the grain as much as possible. Apply the stain color with one rag and keep a second rag handy for wiping off excess stain. Translated this means that either they don t know how to do it it takes extra work to do or they think that it is supposed to look like a stained oak floor and since it doesn t it must be wrong. All the steps in normal refinishing.

Water popping maple will help raise the grain and make the wood is more receptive to the stain or dye. 120 grit trio pass. Having said that diy maple floor staining can be tricky and often best left to the pros. The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain.

The floor may take up the stain but areas of it will not resulting in a blotchy or uneven appearance. It s also important to make sure the rag you use to apply the stain has an even amount of stain with each pass. The raised grain allows us to apply an oil based wood flooring stain in any color with a very high degree of color uniformity throughout. Note that water popping the wood will cause the stain or dye to be darker than what you might realize.

The drying time is at least 8 hours. When maple or hickory kitchen cabinets are stained it is done in a factory controlled environment and they use different types of fast dry spray on coatings. It has uneven hard spots along with softer spots. Wait 30 minutes for the stain to dry.

When trying to stain these woods the hard spots will not absorb the stain easily and when that happens you will have a light patch that looks blotchy. Let the stain remain on the wood for 5 minutes and then wipe it off. If you can still see blotches restain it. Most hardwood floor companies won t stain maple the usual reasons being that it will be blotchy and uneven.

Hand buffing spots with grain variance you can see. You will have to work with maple more than other types of wood to ensure the stain will soak in to the wood evenly. Make sure you rub the stain in well and evenly. 120 grit edger pass.

Wipe off the stain as fast as you can. Ok so you read that are familiar with the process now we can move on how staining of maple is done the outcome you can expect and if a max hardwood stains your maple flooring. Y es you can have your maple floors stained a different color. After the stain is dry we seal and coat the floor like any other floor.

Use a swirling motion to apply the stain but when you wipe off residue move the rag only in the direction of the wood grain to avoid cross grain swipe marks. Then apply a floor finish.