Staining Wood Floors Darker

But sometimes it happens in hidden areas of your house where you sometimes notice after sometime or when you encounter a lingering odor.

Staining wood floors darker. You can read a previous blog post about this process here. Once the stain has dried it can be difficult to remove it entirely from your floor. You can t lighten flooring that s already naturally dark without resorting to extreme.

He should marry it. Dark splotches show up when stain pigments become lodged in areas of grain that are more open. Water popping hardwood floors.

Unfortunately it s not easy to tell which boards this will affect. I have had at least 25 conversations with. He loves it so much.

Another solution to make your floors look a bit darker is to do a water pop. It will make the stain color look more even and it will allow you to do go a bit darker and deeper with very dark stains. 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.

As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look. My father in law is going to give me the hardest time for this post. But the best test is to apply stain to a sample of the wood you re using.

Water popping is a process that opens the pores in the hardwood for more consistent stain penetration. Spots that are prone to blotching show up darker. Dark stains on wood flooring are usually caused by urine or water spots that have remained untreated.