Maple Wood Floor Stains

This is completely natural but the grain and differences in density are highlighted by the stain.

Maple wood floor stains.

I always water pop. All hardwoods and softwoods have some kind of grain pattern and density differences due to its growth. To get the wood to accept stain there is a popular method of water popping the grain water popping is the method of actually putting water evenly on the floor to raise the grain. I have a client that wants me to stain their maple floors medium brown.

Staining hardwood maple floors. However after just a few years the maple yellows. Hard maple floors offer a nice light bright look to a room and are often paired with matching cabinetry when the home is built. Maple like several others species such as walnut american cherry pine and douglas fir do not take stain as evenly as species such as red oak and white oak.

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. 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. Maple is a closed grain wood this means the wood does not like accepting anything into its pores which includes stain. Having said that diy maple floor staining can be tricky and often best left to the pros.

What causes blotchy stain. I am a licensed c15 hardwood floor guy who usually uses bona drifast stains. I am interested in using the water based dye the coating over it with the medium brown stain and then finishing off with bona wood line.