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Water popping hardwood floors.
It involves adding water to the wood before applying the stain.
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It s also called grain popping or raising the grain.
Helps the stain penetrate the wood.
Water popping hardwood floors.
Water popping hardwood floors reopens the graining pores of the floor after sanding has taken place.
Even after harvesting milling and kiln drying wood is essentially alive and will react to the moisture content of it s environment.
Also responding to names such as raising the grain or grain popping water popping is a technique used before staining.
The rich dark wood floors you see today in more and more houses have a common little secret.
Helps to reduce sanding marks.
Water is added evenly to the floor and opens the pores of the wood so that the stain can penetrate the boards.
It s where a thin even layer of misted water is applied to freshly sanded hardwood before the stain is applied.
This process has many benefits.
One of the procedures we go through with every single hardwood floor that we stain is called water popping.
The water popping process also makes sanding marks blend into the rest of the wood grain helping to reduce swirl marks and other marks from the big machine.
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It will make the stain color look more even and can allow you to go a bit darker and deeper with very dark stains such as ebony jacobean and dark walnut.
Meaning that wood retains and expels water and moisture.
Allows for a more even application of the stain.
Trying to see if it s totally necessary to handstand but ends when water popping a wood floor for stain.
Water popping alone is not enough to split or crack boards this sounds like a moisture issue in the home multiplied with a possible lack of acclimation of the wood prior to install.
It makes hardwood floors porous again so that hardwood flooring can be properly stained and finished.
A few benefits of water popping a floor before staining it include.
Basically water popping is a process used to open up the grain of wood flooring.
This step is applied to hardwood flooring that is going to receive a stain.