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.
Water popping hardwood floors.
Basically water popping is a process used to open up the grain of wood flooring.
It involves adding water to the wood before applying the stain.
A few benefits of water popping a floor before staining it include.
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.
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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.
Water is added evenly to the floor and opens the pores of the wood so that the stain can penetrate the boards.
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.
It makes hardwood floors porous again so that hardwood flooring can be properly stained and finished.
Even after harvesting milling and kiln drying wood is essentially alive and will react to the moisture content of it s environment.
This process has many benefits.
All times are utc 5 hours.
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Meaning that wood retains and expels water and moisture.
This step is applied to hardwood flooring that is going to receive a stain.
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Helps to reduce sanding marks.
It s also called grain popping or raising the grain.
It s where a thin even layer of misted water is applied to freshly sanded hardwood before the stain is applied.
Helps the stain penetrate the wood.
Water popping is an added step in the finishing process.
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.
The rich dark wood floors you see today in more and more houses have a common little secret.