One thing is for sure good communication with your customer is a must.
How to stain maple floors darker.
Tip number 2 always start staining on the backs so if you hate the stain experiment you will not see it every day.
A board that has a nice attractive grain pattern can end up with dark splotchy areas after you apply the stain.
Im trying differnet methods conditioners as well as stains and yet i stiil cant figure out why it comes out the way it does.
Staining maple can be done and it can be done very well.
Staining maple a dark color here s a variety of suggestions for getting maple to take a dark even stain.
Discovering the secret to successfully staining maple floors.
Hard maple floors offer a nice light bright look to a room and are often paired with matching cabinetry when the home is built.
Tips for a darker stain on hard maple.
I just installed maple floors in my house and i im having a big concern as to how to go about staining the floors.
When staining maple do not try and force dry times.
That usually makes them unhappy but the reason is that the grains in both maple and hickory flooring can be very hard in spots and very soft in others.
Tip number 1 do not stain.
Im well aware of the density of wood and blochiness it could create.
Lightly hand sand using a light grit sanding block lightly hand sand the entire surface of the wood piece that you would like to darken.
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.
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.
A maple front door unfinished and that the painter was going to stain it dark to match the engineered pre finished wood floor made from who knows what from you know where.
The floor was to be sanded stained a dark brown color and finished with four coats of a leading waterborne finish in a satin sheen.
The customer and his designer made it clear that the stain color and the satin sheen level was expected to be even and uniform over the entire floor area.
Everyone should be on the same page about the expectations and what to expect.
Now if you still want to get a darker finish on your maple cabinet doors here are some tips.
Some types of wood like pine cherry birch and maple are notoriously difficult to stain.
Well let me show you how to easily darken stain without stripping the table or any other piece of stain wood this includes hardwood flooring as well.
If you want a darker finish on maple use a dye.