How To Stain Oak Floor - 2000 Floors Experience Pro Talks Process - Please Ask Questions (Ep#18)

Tell us about your floor refinishing project! What were some of the challenges you encountered along the way? Your experience will be helpful to the community!

This video covers how to prepare an oak floor for staining, and how to stain an oak floor.

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[HowToSandAFloor]

Great video! Great instruction. I’m very interested in that applicator. But most of all, I can’t believe how long you left that first line of stain. Any stain available here and that would have been game over. That stain looks so easy to work with. Great work brother

[bmpowers]

Great video. Best staining tutorial on YouTube.

[craigteachey]

I've learned a lot from your videos. I have done a DIY project on red hardwood floors. Followed many of your instructions. Worked out great. If I had the time I would fly to Canada to work along side of you to absorb more experience. Thanks for the tutorials. Keep up the great work.

[Snow-of-the-Artic]

Thank you for posting this. I couldn’t find a helpful video until I landed here. I now feel prepared for the job. Thank you again for all of your info! ❤

[rodmarin]

Great video. Thanks for letting us peak into your expertise. Beautiful work, great tips and results. Aside from prep work application is paramount for great results. Thanks for passing along your wisdom.

[gohan]

Vary impressive 👏 I can see your experience

[sschrybu]

Best instructions out there. Thanks a bunch for sharing your knowledge. I'm following your instructions & it's turning out pretty good for a DIY job.

[jaho]

Wish I'd have seen this yesterday. I just finished sanding, again, with 120 using that same orbital you mentioned. Time for stain, and I'll be using the sponge mop you suggest. Fingers crossed!

[curlingdan]

Great video thanks for sharing. My question is once your stain is done, what do you apply to seal it? How many coats do you apply and do you do a light sanding between coats?

[TheMikeDiggy]

Broo. Great job caused you didn't even dirty your shoes

[today]

Watched others attempt this process, and it quickly became an epic and tragic stain mess. Too much stain was left on floor causing massive drying issues. Sponge mop just pushed all the stain around on floor. it went from bad to worse. Think it took like a month for floor to finally dry. Maybe this works for you, but guessing most could not or should not use this technique. DIY beware.

[PunaniJohnny]

love the sponge mop idea, dont gotta kneel down to wipe it.

[bobhiggins]

Come to Atlanta and work on some hardwood floors and we can play guitar.

[uniquelife]

Gotta keep stirring the stain even when applying it to the floor

You talked about how many passes with the drum sander...this would be on new unfinished versus refininishing. I'm getting ready do unfinished and had planned on drum to the orbital. I would think there are a lot of variables to the condition that may dictate more or less sanding from the quality/state of the floor either finished or unfinished.

[abwarrior]

Would lambs wool applicators work fine for oil based stains?

[ouraesthetic_abode]

Thank you so much for your helpful videos! I used your sponge mop method for applying oil based stain to our floors and loved it! Sadly, I don’t think I wiped off enough of the excess because after 2 days there’s still wet spots. I went in with mineral spirits to wipe off the excess and I think i’m okay!! But my question is, do I have to do anything else prior to applying the poly? I got the Loba easyfinish! Should I wait another day or two to make sure the floors are fully dry?

[JM-gsgr]

If I can't get one of those big sanders to do the 120 sanding, can I do it with a palm sander? I already did the 80grit with the big drum sander. Would it affect the stain look when using a palm sander on a floor?

[africanhybrid]

I have a question. So I sanded the floors first and while waiting for the seal to arrive, I impulsively started painting the walls. A little mistake happened and paint spilled on a little part of the floor. I cleaned up and much as I can, hand sanded as much as I can but it still has a white cast. Do I have to go in with the edge sander (it's right on the edge) and a 80-100 grit? Or am I safe proceeding with sealing the floor? I'm not looking to stain the floor because I love the raw natural look but I'm a bit confused on how to combat this mistake

[ralphtimewell]

Can you please tell me about your mop? What kind is it as it too would need to be able to handle solvent stain and not break down ? Would this system work on Bona staining? Thanks