Aging Oak Floors

Hardwood floors add a beautiful touch to just about any room but there s some debate about the best way to clean them.

Aging oak floors.

See all our red oak floors. Milled from old barn and house boards. The wood gains a special lustre over the years and undergoes a medium to high degree of colour change with the dark brown heartwood lightening over time to a more golden brown. Minwax weathered oak darkens the patina on pine slightly but on cedar it gives a soft gray overall tone with gold in the grain you might have to apply it more than once to achieve the look you want.

Experts say you can refinish traditional hardwood floors up to 10 times so with a bit of care your floors should last and remain beautiful for a lifetime. Mixture of red and white oak. There are several different mixtures to use for hardwood floors and you ll. In the past craftsmen always hand scraped or hand sanded wood floors but modern sanding and finishing methods were introduced and shiny smoothly finished floors became prominent.

Results for this how to weather wood project can look very different than what is shown on the label so be doubly sure to test it first. Aging patina stress cracks and some original saw marks combined with nail holes and solid knots give this grade of antique oak flooring a very unique character that is impossible to match with new flooring.