How To Finish Raw Wood Floor
If you don t know what to look for then don t be faked out and think the gouges are not there because you can t see them.
How to finish raw wood floor. Sanding the dye coat ever so lightly really enhances the ray flecks. Love the look of this finish really has an old raw wood appearance that i would like to try after seeing your results on the little night table. The gouges will be subtle and hard to see in a raw floor one without a finish on it. Despite the ever increasing selection of hardwood flooring materials available oak continues to be the standard.
Hardwood floors tend to be resistant to soaking up liquid spills owing to the closeness of the grain. It is one of the most abundant. Very lightly scuff sand the dyed wood with 320 grit paper. They used bona mega waterbourne hardwood floor finish in satin.
This finish is designed specifically for quartersawn white oak. Apply a 50 50 mix of trans tint dark mission brown and medium brown dye to the bare wood and let it dry. How to install unfinished oak hardwood flooring. I didn t like the oil based polys that yellow over time.
Properly applied varnish will also give your bare wood furniture pieces a shiny lustrous finish. Learn how to finish your hardwood floor in one day with minwax sanding sealer and minwax super fast drying polyurethane for floors. Varnish is a popular finish for raw and unfinished wooden furniture. My old oak parquet floors with a poly finish was recently sanded and the colors in the raw natural wood are beautiful.
First start by sanding your raw hardwood to leave microabrasions in the wood s surface. I have two pine pieces in my bedroom a 2 door cabinet with a 2 drawer base about 60 tall and a matching chest of drawers about 48 tall. Two years ago when we moved we had all of the floors sanded down to the raw oak and i really loved the color and feel. How to finish hardwood floors in one day with minwax uploaded apr 11 2011.
Instead of the old honey brown color the raw floors have beautiful light grays browns and light cream see pic. I asked the wood guy what type of finish he could apply that would best simulate the raw wood color. The varnish will protect the wood from water grease and dirt.