Stains & Dyes

Techniques for stains, aniline dyes and custom applications for wood floors are detailed here.

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Get a Handle on Wood Floor Staining Strategies

Some wood flooring contractors love to stain floors. They up sell their jobs by offering customers any color they desire, even without having to buy expensive exotic species. They develop a reputation as a color specialist, and they charge...

Step by Step: How to Apply Stain to Wood Floors

Staining a floor seems like a basic skill, but as many wood flooring contractors will tell you, plenty can go wrong. One contractor (who shall remain nameless) recalls the first time he was sent to a job site to water-pop a floor—he did...

Using Aniline Dyes Provides Unlimited Wood Floor Colors

Talk about changing the color of a wood floor, and most wood flooring professionals immediately think about standard wood floor stains (in their palette of browns, with maybe a white or a black...

Step by Step: Using Aniline Dyes on Wood Flooring

When a customer asks for an unusual color on her wood floor that can't be made with typical stains, most hardwood flooring contractors just tell her it can't be done. But that isn't true—dyes can...

Step by Step: How to Buff Stain on Wood Floors

Competition is stronger than ever among today's wood flooring contractors. In this environment, you need the advantage of both efficiency and quality to help increase your bottom-line profit. One of the best ways...

Step by Step: How to Make Custom Wood Floor Designs with Stain

Just about any wood flooring contractor can lay a plain wood floor,but not many go beyond that, offering customers upgrades to customize their wood floors. Some contractors are intimidated...

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