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Water popping hardwood floors.
Allows for a more even application of the stain.
Water popping is a process that opens the pores in hardwood flooring for more consistent stain penetration.
This step is applied to hardwood flooring that is going to receive a stain.
The rich dark wood floors you see today in more and more houses have a common little secret.
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.
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.
It s also called grain popping or raising the grain.
Helps to reduce sanding marks.
This process has many benefits.
Water popping hardwood floors.
Benefits of water popping when water is added to the wood before staining it reopens the pores in the grain.
Meaning that wood retains and expels water and moisture.
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Even after harvesting milling and kiln drying wood is essentially alive and will react to the moisture content of it s environment.
Water popping is an added step in the finishing process.
Also responding to names such as raising the grain or grain popping water popping is a technique used before staining.
One of the procedures we go through with every single hardwood floor that we stain is called water popping.
A few benefits of water popping a floor before staining it include.
Water is added evenly to the floor and opens the pores of the wood so that the stain can penetrate the boards.
It makes hardwood floors porous again so that hardwood flooring can be properly stained and finished.
Water popping hardwood floors reopens the graining pores of the floor after sanding has taken place.
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Helps the stain penetrate the wood.
It involves adding water to the wood before applying the stain.