There are two methods for changing the colour of your floor boards. The first one is to simply add some compatible stain in with the polyurethane as
we apply each coat. This, over the course of the three coats, builds up a steady depth of colour. This method is particularly good if you are just looking
to give the floor a bit of an aged look. It's often requested by owners of Pine flooring, who are hoping to get away from the pale, yellowish hue that freshly
sanded Pine can have.
The following pictures pretty much show what goes into tinting a floor. It's not overly difficult, but nonetheless all care has to be taken to ensure that no
over-laps occur. Over-laps, can also present themselves as a problem if we try to go too dark with the amount of stain we pour into the polyurethane
as we apply each coat.
As much as this method produces a great looking floor, it's still fairly limited as too how dark it can come up and what colours we can offer, as basically,
it's either a shade of brown, a shade of red, or a bit of blend of both.
The real benefit of this method is that it doesn't add too much additional work to the job, therefore it's a far less expensive option over the direct
staining of the floorboards
Here we have a floor that had been coated with some particularly foul
water based type of polyurethane.
The owners had tried to sand the floor, but gave up after about two hours
of knocking themselves out and getting nowhere fast.
After fine sanding the boards, we began coating and as the owners wanted
the floor to look much richer than it had previously we added colour into the
two pac polyurethane to give it more depth and character.
As this tinting of the boards is prone to over-lapping lines, all care must
be taken throughout the entire coating process
What we do is do the coating in small manageable sections to ensure that
nothing goes wrong, and if, god forbid, something does play up it's still
pretty easy to fix a little section rather than a whole floor
This last run as we come out of a room is the trickiest one of all.
Great looking boards. Awesome sanding. Fine coating.
As we progress onto the last coat you can really begin to see the depth of
colour.
This last coat just glides on beautifully after the floors have been cut back
with a fine screen disc on our polishing machine.
Lovely, just lovely.
All coming together just as we planned.
The colour we used here is mainly Jarrah stain with a bit of black
thrown in for good measure.
You have to admit that's a pretty groovy looking fireplace up against the
new floor.
The lounge room has come together beautifully.
You would think I'm coating the floor with some sort of Red Wine, but I assure
you this stuff is totally un-drinkable.
How's that?!
Nice?! Huh?
This is the final shot of the entry which is now heaps better than it was in
photo number two, at the top of the page.
This here is pretty much the eye view the average Spider or bug has
as it makes it's way into your house.
