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.
Maple stain colors for floors.
While you can use a stain to get the darker colors mentioned above with a light color it s best to purchase a wood floor that is already blonde.
They have been reproduced using digital production techniques.
If you decide to screen your maple floor or use grits finer than 100 you will need to pop the grain.
For a blonde wood look you ll see bamboo maple white oak red oak and ash.
Always test stain on a hidden area of the wood to verify desired color.
Over the past couple of years we have experimented re done mistakes and have been able to produce some very nice stained maple floors that have cherry walnut or dark mahogany colors.
The results have been beautiful.
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.
In my own flooring business natural wood floors i have been asked to stain many maple and hickory floors when refinishing but i usually tell my customers no.
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.
Once the sanding is done then you need to thoroughly clean the wood.
The colors shown are for reference purposes only.