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.
Water popping hardwood floors.
Even after harvesting milling and kiln drying wood is essentially alive and will react to the moisture content of it s environment.
Water is added evenly to the floor and opens the pores of the wood so that the stain can penetrate the boards.
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Water popping is an added step in the finishing process.
Water popping hardwood floors.
This process has many benefits.
Water popping is a process that opens the pores in hardwood flooring for more consistent stain penetration.
All times are utc 5 hours.
Allows for a more even application of the stain.
Meaning that wood retains and expels water and moisture.
It s also called grain popping or raising the grain.
Water popping hardwood floors reopens the graining pores of the floor after sanding has taken place.
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.
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.
This step is applied to hardwood flooring that is going to receive a stain.
Trying to see if it s totally necessary to handstand but ends when water popping a wood floor for stain.
It involves adding water to the wood before applying the 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.
Benefits of water popping when water is added to the wood before staining it reopens the pores in the grain.
One of the procedures we go through with every single hardwood floor that we stain is called water popping.
Helps the stain penetrate the wood.
Also responding to names such as raising the grain or grain popping water popping is a technique used before staining.
It s where a thin even layer of misted water is applied to freshly sanded hardwood before the stain is applied.
Basically water popping is a process used to open up the grain of wood flooring.