Our first home has atrociously stained floors
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Anonymous
The streaks in the stain are so jarring. How does one remedy this?
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Anonymous
| Try sanding and refinishing or replace. That looks like a bad stain job. |
Anonymous
It looks terrible, doesn't it? I'm guessing it was a quick DIY by the seller before listing. |
Anonymous
Does anyone have experience in doing this? I'd like to do something similar but have little home improvement skills. |
Anonymous
| I would just leave it unless it's your forever home |
Anonymous
| Those are probably pretty floors. Maybe you could refinish them? |
Anonymous
| They may not be DIY - just a wood that doesn't stain well. We DIY and our floors look nothing like that. |
Anonymous
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Have you already moved in? If not, have the floors redone - sand and finish - before you do, i.e. while the house is still empty. Takes 2-3 days. Afterwards it's much harder.
Btw, of course this can be done much nicer than it looks in your photograph. |
Anonymous
| In your pic they didn't go with the grain (It's perpendicular to the grain!!). Is that what you hate the most? Or the color? |
Anonymous
| It looks like maybe they had some dark/discolored stains on the hardwood and just covered them up/evened them out with a dark stain. I agree that the end result (at least in that pic) isn't too appealing. It looks like it was done last minute and in a hurry - at least from that pic. That's the way it looks but who knows maybe whoever did it worked hard to get that look. |
Anonymous
That is strange! |
Anonymous
| Unless this is your 5000 SF new build forever home I would just leave it as is. There will probably be a bunch of other more important stuff come up that you will need to pay for especially on a used home. This is a mistake first home buyers make. |
Anonymous
How did they get that look? Did they mop the stain on from a bucket? It's interesting. |
Anonymous
OP here I actually love the color, it's just that the streaks are perpendicular to the grain that bothers me. It looks like they applied the stain on with a spatula. In any case, you're right, it's an old house and there will undoubtedly be worse things that will need fixing. I'll just hide a lot of the bad areas with beautiful area rugs instead. Thanks! |
Anonymous
| We had the same problem. The previous owner did a DIY and used the wrong equipment. We redid it and it looks great now. |