Stained Maple Flooring
Wide x random length solid hardwood flooring 20 sq.
Stained maple flooring. The use of oil based pigmented stains on maple results in a very blotchy looking floor. Due to the extremely tight cellular structure and variable grain patterns inherent in northern hard maple the maple flooring manufacturers association mfma does not recommend staining or bleaching maple strip flooring under any circumstances. Truth is staining a maple floor gives it a cool depth and unique color variations something that is impossible to duplicate the same in another floor.
You can read what the wood flooring association has to say about maple flooring here. This is probably said thousands of times a day across the us during a site evaluation of a wood floor. Homeowners are often suspicious when they hear this since they re offered countless options of stained maple cabinetry and prefinished wood flooring and they look quite uniform in color.
Staining maple is generally not recommended by finish manufacturers since the dense grain does not allow the penetration of most pigments. Sand the floor for both applications the best way to start is by sanding the maple floor flawlessly. One of my favorite colors to stain is a color called sable black made by glitsa.
The two options available are staining maple using a dye water soluble or solvent soluble or alcohol soluble or using a conventional resin based wiping stain. Case 7 79. Simply put maple is not a hardwood flooring wood that should be stained.
Thick x 3 1 4 in. No maple doesn t take stain well. Educate customers about the difficulties involved in the staining of maple so they are warned of possible appearance issues.
Millstead hand scraped maple chocolate 3 4 in. It is not supposed to look like oak that s the beauty of it. The result will probably be close to this and will cost roughly 6 000 7 000.