Bleached Oak Wood Floors

The best woods for bleaching include oak beach ash and gum.

Bleached oak wood floors.

Bleached red oak stair rails baseboards and treads complement the light shades of this staircase and room. The smooth look of maple. The textured lines of oak. The top coat is water based polyurethane.

Bleaching your hardwood floor is an option when you have stubborn stains that will not disappear. If the wood floor is painted sealed waxed or coated with any type of protective layer this layer must first be removed. To fully bleach the wood the bleaching solution must be able to reach the wood s cells. I had heard of people bleaching wood but i was skeptical about how well it would work.

Apply a b bleach safely. Sometimes your hardwood floors become discolored with age or accidental stains. Customized hardwood finishes offer new decorative dimension architects builders and interior designers feature north american hardwoods because of their natural characteristics and beauty. Lye and hydrogen peroxide.

Beach the red oak. But only one will remove the natural color from wood. Other wood bleaches are chlorine bleach and oxalic acid. A two part wood bleach of sodium hydroxide caustic soda and hydrogen peroxide.

This will smell and it will take extra time and cost extra money. White gray and clear. Two part wood bleach turns red oak bone white without obscuring the grain the way a pickling stain would. If you have red oak floors already you have the option of bleaching your floors to cancel out the red undertones in the floor.

Wear long neoprene gloves with ends cuffed to catch drips a waterproof apron and goggles. Bleaching hardwood floors is a chemical process to lighten the color of the wood. But i want you to remember that you also have the option of not whitewashing your floors. When i saw this i knew there was hope.

The richness of. You can still see a hint of. Occasionally homeowners choose to lighten their floors in preparation for special finishes such as antiquing or pickling. The dark hue of walnut.

After researching the best bleach for wood i came to the conclusion that all of the products i was finding were very overpriced. The floor contractor patiently bleached a series of sample red oak floor boards to see what the floor would look like with three different stains. But wood bleach lets you remove color from wood. Household bleach oxalic acid or a two part kit containing hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydroxide.

You ll find three kinds of products marketed as wood bleaches. After sanding thoroughly clean all dust from the. Sand down any part of the wood floor covered in a protective layer to bare wood. The floors after two rounds of wood bleach.

These test boards were bleached twice. Varieties like poplar and pine are already so light that removing further natural wood color might render them bland and lifeless. A b bleach is extremely caustic and will quickly burn your.