Bleached Oak Wood Floors

Sometimes your hardwood floors become discolored with age or accidental stains.

Bleached oak wood floors. Bleached red oak stair rails baseboards and treads complement the light shades of this staircase and room. The best woods for bleaching include oak beach ash and gum. Sand down any part of the wood floor covered in a protective layer to bare wood. If the wood floor is painted sealed waxed or coated with any type of protective layer this layer must first be removed.

After researching the best bleach for wood i came to the conclusion that all of the products i was finding were very overpriced. The richness of. 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.

Wear long neoprene gloves with ends cuffed to catch drips a waterproof apron and goggles. To fully bleach the wood the bleaching solution must be able to reach the wood s cells. The dark hue of walnut. Household bleach oxalic acid or a two part kit containing hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydroxide.

The floors after two rounds of wood bleach. I had heard of people bleaching wood but i was skeptical about how well it would work. Bleaching hardwood floors is a chemical process to lighten the color of the wood. Apply a b bleach safely.

The textured lines of oak. Choose a method based on the stain composition. The top coat is water based polyurethane. Two part wood bleach turns red oak bone white without obscuring the grain the way a pickling stain would.

I also noticed that they all seemed to have the same two main ingredients. White gray and clear. But i want you to remember that you also have the option of not whitewashing your floors. Other wood bleaches are chlorine bleach and oxalic acid.

There are three common methods for wood beaching. But wood bleach lets you remove color from wood. These test boards were bleached twice. 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.

Varieties like poplar and pine are already so light that removing further natural wood color might render them bland and lifeless. The smooth look of maple. A b bleach is extremely caustic and will quickly burn your. Beach the red oak.

You can still see a hint of. When i saw this i knew there was hope. Occasionally homeowners choose to lighten their floors in preparation for special finishes such as antiquing or pickling. You ll find three kinds of products marketed as wood bleaches.

If you have red oak floors already you have the option of bleaching your floors to cancel out the red undertones in the floor. But only one will remove the natural color from wood. After sanding thoroughly clean all dust from the.