The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain.
Maple flooring stain colors.
We then dyed the floor with a fruitwood color to change the base color of the wood from white tan to more of a cherry or red birch color.
Maple like several others species such as walnut american cherry pine and douglas fir do not take stain as evenly as species such as red oak and white oak blotchy color can result from other factors as well such as inconsistent sanding procedures water popping or stain application.
It is not supposed to look like oak that s the beauty of it.
Use a high powered light to investigate your sanding to make certain you do not have sanding marks.
Staining maple shows all sanding flaws quickly.
This is the floor as we prepared it for the dye.
Staining maple a light teak color can be done and done well but you need to practice your finish and staining system and sand with great precision.
Here is an example of a recent floor we completed on a 3 1 4 second and better grade hard maple floor.
The raised grain allows us to apply an oil based wood flooring stain in any color with a very high degree of color uniformity throughout.
It should be noted that dying staining a maple floor is a.
Because of its clean light appearance that is easy to decorate around maple has become the flooring of choice when a light design is required.
After the stain is dry we seal and coat the floor like any other floor.
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.
The result of these options is that the neutral stain floor will have the least stain color showing.