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Thanks for the replies! Appreciate it. So, he agrees it’s definitely an issue and he re-sanded the floor with a courser grit, and then stained a test patch with a higher concentration of stain (50% as opposed to 30%), this seems to have stopped the strange patchiness. The higher stain...

I spoke to him yesterday and he said that the picture frame effect is indeed very unusual and he wasn’t expecting it. His theory is there is some sort of containment in the gaps that is pushing the stain away from the edges of the boards. I don’t actually mind the look either! The house is a...

I’ve recently purchased my first home and am having the hardwood floors sanded, stained a darker colour and sealed with solvent based poly. The contractor seems super competent and spent multiple days sanding. I then chose a stain and they went to work. Today I just popped in to have a look, and...