General Overview
When sanding or replacement is performed on the floorboard the color of the surrounded board needs to be matched with the sanded floorboard. The replacement boards should match the existing floorboard. If the customer is having a white oak floor and repaired board is replaced by mahogany floorboard, the boards do not match with each other. So it is important to match the color and finish of the floorboards. The material required to match the hardwood floor stain includes rag, rubbing alcohol, clock, matching floorboard, bowl, and stains of the approximate color.
Steps To Match Hardwood Floor Stain
The steps are mentioned below to match the hardwood floor stain:
- Step 1: If the floorboard needs to be replaced then the first step is to match the pattern of the board with the existing board.
- Step 2: Next step is to decide the color of the stain to be applied on the floorboard. Wood floors already have a finish on their top. Polyurethane, oil-based polyurethane, and water-based finish can be applied on the floor.
- Step 3: Next step is to clean the floorboard with the rubbing alcohol and apply the matching finish on the hardwood floorboard.
- Step 4: Now apply various stain on similar type of wood boards. When the stain dries completely compare the board with the original floorboard. The stained boards are sampled for different time spans.
- Step 5: At last, apply polyurethane finish on the stained wood samples according to the original finish of the floorboards.