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.
Water popping hardwood floors reopens the graining pores of the floor after sanding has taken place.
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.
Helps the stain penetrate the wood.
It s also called grain popping or raising the grain.
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This process has many benefits.
Water popping hardwood floors.
It s where a thin even layer of misted water is applied to freshly sanded hardwood before the stain is applied.
It involves adding water to the wood before applying the stain.
Meaning that wood retains and expels water and moisture.
Also responding to names such as raising the grain or grain popping water popping is a technique used before staining.
Water popping is a process that opens the pores in hardwood flooring for more consistent stain penetration.
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It makes hardwood floors porous again so that hardwood flooring can be properly stained and finished.
This step is applied to hardwood flooring that is going to receive a stain.
Water is added evenly to the floor and opens the pores of the wood so that the stain can penetrate the boards.
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.
Allows for a more even application of the stain.
The rich dark wood floors you see today in more and more houses have a common little secret.
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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.
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.
Water popping is an added step in the finishing process.
Basically water popping is a process used to open up the grain of wood flooring.