Wood Bleach Tutorial: How to Make Red Oak Look Like White Oak!

This stuff may be bad for your lungs....hopw you wore respiratory gear.

I laid pale untreated oak floor. I stupidly varnished it with an oil wax and it turned a piss yellow. I sanded and then used this product to bleach the yellow out back to its original colour but it didn't work. In fact the product did absolutely nothing.

How to make white oak look like red oak. Because red oak is whiter than white oak. It is not about the color of the wood, but the color of the tree.

Is this stuff discontinued?? I can't find it anywhere.

Is it fair to say this isn’t redoing your floors? This is supplemental to an existing stained red oak floor? Ours really has a clear coat to keep it natural. Just curious if this requires as heavy sanding

Unfortunately the wood bleach you used seems to be unavailable in the US. Canada, only, and they won't ship it across the border.

Does anyone know if you can still buy the circa 1850 bleach product? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Can this process be done on Kitchen Cabinets?

I assume this was raw wood and not previously coated with a topcoat correct?

When you painted the stringer you didn't protect the stair treat from getting some paint on them?

painters tape

Applying wood bleach volume so simple?

Please tell me chemical name??

Need Help!! I had a new staircase installed. the contractor errantly installed red oak treads. I now need to match the red oak treads to my prefinished white oak flooring which is a walnut stain color. Is this possible?

Love it!!

Why would you want to do that . Red oak is rich and white oak looks like cheap pine .

The link for Circa 1850 Bleach doesn't work. I can't find this product in USA.

Hardwood floor refinisher here
The pros don't do this. We use Loba easyfinish with loba whitener. Usually 2 to 3 coats. You'll neutralize the red/pink undertones and have a beautiful thick coat of water based poly that won't change color overtime.

There are species of red oak that look like white oak and visa versa. The difference between the 2 woods isn't the color. Color-wise, the stairs came out looking almost like maple. Maple is also very nice.

Can I bleach my red oak veneer interior door? It is 1/8" thickness veneer with a solid particle core.

Short and sweet, with normal audio Thank you!

Can you do this on floors if they've already been poly'd?

What type of top coat do you use to try to preserve the white oak look?

Any similar product in the us, I can't find it anywhere.

I love the look

Are the floors Waddington Oak LVP by chance? I'm trying to match get some red oak trim to match my newly installed floors and found this video.

In the last 15 seconds of the video it looks like he stained the stairs a light gray. I’m wondering what product you used? My flooring looks very similar and I am going to bleach red oak stairs and use a similar stain to achieve pretty much the exact same look that you did. So just wondering what’s the stain used?

This looks amazing!! Do you think it would work on kitchen cabinets?

Does this damage the wood in the long term?

I cannot find this bleach product in stock anywhere. Please advise on where to purchase. Thanks!

what sander did you use please?

I love it!! I want to do the same thing to my honey colored oak kitchen cabinets.

Hi! have you tried liquid sandpaper instead of manually sanding? Want to bleach my window trims and sanding it manually looks too hard. Second question, if I do need to really manually sand, do I just buff or it needs to be done hard?

I had my red oak wood staircase sanded and stained (no top finish/varnish yet…) by a professional but the color is horrible. I want it to match my new white oak floors. Can you use this on wood that has just been stained but no sealant… will it work?

Love it! Amazing job!

You bleached and neutralized- did you seal?

What grey did you use on the stairs after (I guess) sealing the wood (last few seconds of the video) we have red oak stairs and want to make them a dark grey.

Have you ever used this product on mahogany? I'm going to finsh a new mahogany door and want to neutralize the red tones. TIA

Which bleach did you use?

Was there a sealant or finish on the stairs? obv the 80 sand took whatever off - I assume?

Wow! I was getting ready to paint pickled oak cabinets. Would i get the white oak look with this technique?

Nice job, but why did you spend that much time bleaching and NOT tape off while painting white???

The color of the oak has nothing to do with the name. There is red white oak and white red oak as well.

I would to do the same from red oak to white oak for my commercial counter top, it still unfinished red oak. Do I still do the same with what you do in the video?

Wow, you did an amazing job! Getting that Bin shellac on perfectly like that is epic! My question is I am refinishing a table and painting a portion and want to bleach the top and bottom of small table for a natural wood look. I believe it's red oak. I sanded down the finish with 80 sander yesterday then wipe it down with water and it was a light color. Woke up this morning to further work on it and it was red again! I'm a newbie. Is this normal? Do I need to sand more? Also, I bought a wood bleaching kit by Zinsser? Is that ok? Thank you!

Just lovely 😊

I really like the woodglut plans.

How much surface area does a container this size do? I can't find a larger container for this. Looking to do this exact thing but over 1000 sqft of 2" red oad hardwood floors.

Woodglut instructions is nice for that.