Blow Torched Wood Floors

Wood floors can add character and style to your home but water damage leave dark stains and can cause the wood to buckle.
Blow torched wood floors. Michael bradford august 25th 2018. If you want to change the shade of your worn out old polyurethane wood floor but you don t want to sand it down to bare wood and re stain it there is an alternative. Burn staining requires the use of a torch and water to stain your hardwood floor but the utmost care is required when using this method. The average do it yourself homeowner can burn stain her wood floors in one to two days depending on the size and scope of the project.
You can use a combination of surface drying and air circulation to help remove moisture from the wood. Luckily if you can dry your wood floors they can often be saved. A child that was showed how to patiently use the torch to bring out the veins and knots of the piece would show the artistic way that most can make a plain board beautiful. Move the torch evenly over the wood holding it over each area for about five to ten seconds until it goes black and a layer of soot develops.
A child could do the same with a torch.