When I said two days ago that I would rework my newly completed Red Oak Hartwood Bloor to make them easier, the overwhelming majority of people thought that I was actually serious. You know me well. I am the queen of repetition. If I am not 100% satisfied with something, I generally have no problem at all with bending and moving it. But there were a few people who thought I would joke. I understand it. After all, I posted it on April 1st, so it would have been a perfect April Fool’s joke.
But what surprised me the most was the overwhelming positive reaction that I received. I thought I would get so much more pushback than me. The first thing I said to my mother when we sat down for lunch yesterday was: “Did you see the answers that I received on this post?! Almost everyone said I should make myself for it!” She was pretty shocked too. She and I had already talked about it, and she also expected a lot more setbacks that I restored such a big project that was actually really pretty.
So did I mean it seriously or was it an April joke? I am pretty sure that 100% of them know the answer.
I was very serious. Before I wrote this post, I had already sanded part of the floor in the washing cabinet just to see how difficult it would be to get the finish off the ground. I thought that if I cooked, it would be hidden under the washing machine and nobody would ever see it.
But now I have passed the point without return. Yesterday, after I ended the entire wood filling on all cupboards, I spent about 30 minutes to grind the floor of the floor directly against the cupboards so that I can attach the baseboards today.
I don’t have to let all the soils sanded at this point, and I will not grind all floors with my 5-inch orbit grinder. But before I can fasten the baseboards, I had to sand the areas at least against the cupboards. As long as these areas are sanded, I can grind my plans to grind, brag and paint the cupboards (hopefully this weekend), and then I can return to the floors a little later.
So I started videos from different people last night, after working on the closet, who rework their Red Oak hardwood floors with a natural finish so that I could decide exactly what I would like to do with mine. What I decided almost immediately is that this time I will use Bona products. These seem to be the most popular products that are used to get a natural finish on Red oak floors.
But that only narrowed a little. It’s like deciding to use Minwax Fleck to color your chest of drawers. If you narrow down the brand, you will still be about 50 options for stain colors. Bona has so many great products and there are many different variations with which people get this natural finish. So I’m still trying to decide which products I want to use. I will show you the three that seem to be the most popular to get a light, natural finish. I made some screenshots out of my favorite videos to show them, and these are all Red Oak Bloors.
And so they looked like the grinding and with the Gutnordian and Bona people in a satin finish.
They used Bona Naturalal, followed by Bona -Traffitin, and so it looked like …
It is really difficult to say what the real color comes from a screenshot of a video, but for me these floors look as if they still have a little red. I think these floors are beautiful, but I really don’t want so much red in my finished soils.
And here is the floor with Bona NaturalAlalsal, followed by Bona -Traffita …
This red undertone does not have this red undertone, although the video description says it is Red Oak. And obviously, after the description, they did nothing special to remove these red under tones.
And this is how it looks with Bona Naturalalsal and Bona Traffigd.
I see a little red undertone in this, but it’s not too overwhelming. I think it looks really beautiful and neutral. And again it doesn’t seem as if they had taken special steps to remove the red undertones from the red oak.
I have not found any examples of the ClearSeal on Red Oak Flooring, but I would really like to see an example of this. I think the ClearSeal can be a relatively new product that used to have a different name. I saw a few videos (like this) that use a color called ClassicSeal that describes this medium color on the container. I am not sure whether it has the same color with a different name or whether it is a completely different color. And in this special video he did not expressly said that his floor is red oak, although it looks like red oak for my more un forulted eye.
I am pretty sure that I excluded the Nordicsal. It’s just too white for my taste and I’m afraid that it is a bit too trendy at the moment. I like that Wood has a bit of warmth, i.e. after what I saw, I lean more towards NaturalAlalsal. But I really want to see an example of ClearSeal on Red Oak before making my final decision.
Bona also has a product called Red Out, which the red oak flooring red under tones. Regardless of the finish I use, I am about 99% sure that I will start with the Red Out so that I do not take a chance that these red/orange under tones will get through. This is a two -stage process that seems to be relatively fast and easy. You simply roll part 1 of the product onto the floor, and before it is completely dry, roll part 2 of the product on the floor and of course let it dry. As it dries, it removes the red. And you can repeat these steps again if necessary.
All of this to say that I was serious how most of them knew very well. And if you have experience with Bona products, especially with the ClearSeal that I couldn’t find examples of Red Oak, I would like to hear what you have to say to you!
