Stain becomes sticky on a wooden surface because it doesn t have a binder such as you find in paint or varnish.
How to fix bqd stain job on hardwood floors.
If it hasn t repeat the process.
Start by stripping off what you can as described above then seal the wood with a water thin mix of de waxed shellac and alcohol.
Gel stain glaze darkens the right side of this cherry panel without increasing the contrast caused by blotches.
Wipe dark areas of the floor with mineral spirits or acetone to lift the stain from the wood.
I repeated this process until i finished the entire floor.
You can also mix your own stain by adding pigments to lacquer thinner.
This may take several applications but eventually the stain will be bleached away.
Let it dry for 2 hours.
If you have some leftover stain from the last floor refinishing job use that or a closely matching commercial stain.
Then switch to a 100 percent pigmented stain such as varathane most stains are a mix of dye and pigment.
Lift the cloth and check to see whether the stain has been bleached away.
I mentally blocked off 4 10 areas applied my stain waited 10 minutes and removed it with a clean rag.
When the solvent evaporates all that remains is the pigment and the oil that is.
This is my favorite part of the hardwood floor restoration.
Restore color to the worn area if necessary by wiping on stain.
Wipe away any excess moisture and allow the area to dry completely.
Saturate the wood with the solution and wipe it off.
If the stain resists these chemicals or if a polyurethane topcoat has already been applied to the.
Stain the hardwood floors.
If you only need a small amount of glaze to fix the blotching problem wipe off the excess stain as you would on bare wood allow it to dry and apply two topcoats photo below.
So staining the hardwood floors was a simple job.
In my fifteen years of flooring i ve had my share of projects where i was called to go and fix some terrible floor refinishing or installation projects of some guy that offered to complete the project for prices that the homeowner should ve known are too good to be true.
Bad floor refinishing pictures of a terrible floor refinishing project.
Let the stain dry for several hours.
To do it you need strippers which are solvents specifically compounded to dissolve types of wood stains.