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Stain/Custom Color

What’s Your Best Advice to Avoid Trouble When Staining?

Wood Floor Business asked wood flooring pros to offer their best advice for staining success. Here's what they said about techniques for creating great stain jobs:

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Wood Floor Q&A: Is It Ever OK to Double-Stain a Wood Floor?

Is it ever OK to double-stain a wood floor? Here are some clear answers.

Doing a second coat of stain without sufficient dry time before coating can result in trapped solvents that create white lines along board edges (like these), or adhesion issues such as peeling and delamination. (Photo courtesy of DuraSeal)

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Wood Floor Mystery #9: A 'Sight' Inspection of a 'Disappearing' Gunstock Wood Floor, Part 2 (the Answer!)

Wood floor pro Stephen Diggins reveals the answer to the mystery of the prefinished floor that had a claim because the stain was reported to have completely disappeared.

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Wood Floor Mystery #9: A 'Sight' Inspection of a 'Disappearing' Gunstock Wood Floor, Part 1

A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. What happened?

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Why Would an Existing Wood Floor Cup After Refinishing?

Wood flooring expert Howard Brickman explains what factors could cause an existing wood floor to cup after it's been refinished.

Cupping that happens after refinishing could be merely a coincidence, or it could be the result of an impermeable finish trapping moisture.

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Wood Floor Mystery #7: The Case of the ‘Burned’ Floor, Part 2

Wood floor pro Stephen Diggins reveals the answer to why this wood floor looked like the edges had been burned after the floor was water-popped for stain.

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Wood Floor Mystery #7: The Case of the ‘Burned’ Floor, Part 1

Why did this wood floor look like the edges had been burned after the floor was water-popped for stain? Pro Stephen Diggins digs into the mystery.

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Wood Floor Mystery #6, Part 3: The Case of the Crawling Finish … AND Dishout!

Wood flooring pro Stephen Diggins finds out why this floor has a "wavy" appearance—what is commonly called "dishout."

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Recoat Leads to ‘Plastic Appearance,’ Puddle, Debris, More

This wood floor recoat went from bad to worse.

This puddling may have been correctable, but this floor had other issues.

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Wood Floor Mystery #6: The Case of the Crawling Finish, Part 2

In Part 2 of this blog, Stephen Diggins figures out the mysterious problem causing the crawling finish ... but ends up with another problem.

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Wood Floor Mystery #6: The Case of the Crawling Finish, Part 1

Things seemed to be done correctly—so why did this wood floor finish crawl on this strip floor?

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Wood Flooring Q&A: Trouble with Matching Samples

I have a hardwax oil job where customers are complaining that the floor is lighter than the sample. I used the same color for both—why doesn’t it match?

When making color samples, you need to figure out how to mimic the sanding process, with the same scratch patterns, that you'll be using on the actual floor.

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