White Stain Hardwood Floor has New Color Lummi Island,WA
Technical: Taking an old white wash finished floor and changing the color to a brown tone or cherry tone gets tricky. You see, as you sand the floor, the floor appears to be cleaned of all old finish as the white stain looks a lot like unfinished wood. However, There are some tale tell signs to watch for as we sand.
Why is this important? Any residual white finish will show up as stark white or very light contrast when stained over thus not producing the consistent staining and gorgeous floor you desire.
Very important to be aggressive with the sanding grits to eat and chew through the finish to get to bare wood. Once to bare wood, now, the normal sanding prep and sanding can occur to prepare for the new brown tone stains!
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Lummi Island Getaway Refinish
This week I will refinish a wood floor.
When I walked into this home a year after the trim work changes, I immediately thought of a Whistler condo. The ambiance was so warm, cozy and inviting. The wood floor was a dated white wash color. To pull the home together, the floor is to be refinished, sanding to bare wood and apply a cherry toned stain.
The wood floor is throughout the home and acts as a back drop to the home anchoring all the different pieces of furniture and colors.
Read MoreFinding the Stain Match
In this picture, which stained board is the factory pre-finished? Obviously, the board fully stained. As you can see the other half stained board is pretty darn close and is my attempt at matching the prefinished piece. To replicate the stain, required mixing together a wiping stain in one color and 2 separate colors in a different transparent product. Many jobs require custom stain mixing to arrive at a color to:
- match a previously stained or pre-finished floor
- match a picture seen in a magazine
- to work well with a color palette selected for the home
- replicate aging
Whatever your color need, use my expertise to arrive at the look you desire!
Read MoreGenerous Donor Donates Rosewood Hardwood Floor to Church for Install and Refinish Bellingham WA!
Two finish choices, water based and swedish finish were discussed. Using a water based finish, will tend to mute the natural wood tones making the floor more pale. Swedish finish will get as much and as deep a color out of the wood as possible.
We decided on using SYNTEKO Swedish finish. Reasoning, it would almost be a shame to mute the beautiful tones of rosewood flooring.
Dustless sanding was used to protect the seating, carpet and sound equipment from a dusty mess!
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Hardwood Floor Beauty is Deeper than Skin Whatcom,County
Hoffmann Hardwood Floors can refinish that floor!
This pictures shows the final coat of finish during application. Pictures of still wet floors show the reflection of just how flat the floor has been sanded prior to clear coat applications.
“Bona Traffic Satin” is the eco friendly water based top coating of choice.
Read MoreCan a Greasy & Grimey breakfast house floor be recoated?
Sometimes, there is just not enough wood left in a floor for sanding! So is the case with this well worn, rutted, 100 year old, fir cafe floor. Removing the floor and reinstalling a new one would blow the budget. Other companies didn’t have alternative solutions.
Problem: How can I recoat a maple syrup covered, bacon grease and every other food residue coated floor?
Solution: I came up with a new technique. Allowing a color restain and finish recoat with no bonding issues!
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Finish Coats Add Protection
After floors are properly sanded, application of finish coats will seal the wood and offer a walkable film layer to protect the surface from wear, scuffs and dirt. This picture includes a bottle of Bona’s Satin Traffic floor finish. This is a top of the line water based finish.
Unlike stinky Swedish finishes, this product can be applied and you could be in the house sooner with no seriously harsh chemical out gasing.
Ugly no longer, beauty is here to stay!
Even what seems to be the ugliest floor can be turned into a real beauty! Just ask us how.
Read MoreUgly floor hides true identity
The sanding process is underway.
An aggressive sandpaper was used to “hog” through the old brittle, but rubbery carpet pad. I call this kind of sandpaper “shards of rock, bonded to paper” as the grit size is about 1/8″ and very sharp and angular.
Remember, always wear hearing protection and a breathing mask. I do not recommend those paper throw away dust masks. Spend $20 for a good fitting mask with HEPA filters-HEPA filters are generally pink color coded.
Read MoreThat ugly floor can be refinished!
YES IT CAN! This floor was covered with the same carpet for 50 years.
The house became a rental and many times the carpet was shampooed. As a result the carpet pad had glued itself to the wax residual finish on the wood floor.
I walk into new projects daily, I will give you concise information about the status of your wood floor and the options for proceeding.
Read MoreFreshen up the floor surface with a recoat!
A recoat of wood flooring runs about a 1/3 the cost of refinishing the floor. If the existing finish on your floor is loosing its shine (but has not worn through to the bare wood) we generally can add another coat to extend the life of the floor. An onsite inspection can verify a floor candidate.
For the floor in this picture, I used the following are steps:
- wet sanding with a mild degreaser
- a hot water wash of the degreaser
- thorough cleaning
- apply top coating
