Wooden flooring treated with Osmo Oil Stain 3518 Light Grey in a modern living room

Preserve wood and add colour!

Do you have a solid wood floor that could do with a fresher look? Here we will show you how to give your wooden flooring a fresh colour coat with little effort thanks to Osmo Oil Stain - everything you need you can get from Osmo. Let's get to it!

Materials and tools

Osmo Oil Stain

To bring out your individual style and taste professionally, wooden floor can be colour-coated with Oil Stain. This coating comes in a wide colour spectrum - from classic brown colours to trendy greys.

Thanks to its plant-based ingredients, Oil Stain produces a harmonious and seamless colour without visible transitions. The oil penetrates especially deeply into the wood, thus enabling an optimal staining.

Oil Stain is easy to apply and economical: 1 litre covers up to 48 m².

Osmo Oil Stain for your solid wood flooring in the living room: simple application and individual staining for a new look

Osmo Polyx®-Oil Original

The classic among Osmo coating systems, Polyx®-Oil Original, protects the colour pigments in the staining against abrasion so that the flooring stays in perfect shape.

This wood coating is based on natural oils and waxes and provides a low-maintenance surface that supports a healthy home. The oil penetrates the wood protecting it from the inside, while the wax forms a durable, elastic and abrasion-resistant protection on the wood surface. With this treatment, wood can absorb and release moisture, and the coating will not crack, flake or peel.

After the final treatment with Polyx®-Oil Original, the wooden floor is hard-wearing, water and dirt repellent and extremely durable.

Osmo Polyx®-Oil Original for solid wood flooring. Hard-wearing, water repellent and stain-resistant.

Osmo tools and accessories

Osmo tools are optimally suited to oil and wax-based coating systems and facilitate renovation projects greatly. Larger machines like Osmo FloorXcenter can be hired at a specialist merchant.

In our step-by-step instruction, the following tools are used:

Stirring Stick
Floor Brush
Hand Pad Holder
Microfibre Roller
Double Blade Scraper

Osmo accessories - everything you need to stain and protect solid wood flooring optimally. Perfectly suited to Osmo coating systems.

HERE'S HOW!

Thoroughly sand the solid wood flooring and remove sanding dust. Stir Osmo Oil Stain well and pour into a roller tray.

Prior the application, thoroughly sand off the existing coating and clear the floor of sanding dust. Before applying Oil Stain, stir the coating well and it is ready to use. Fill the tray with a small amount of oil.

Coat the corners and edges of the solid wood flooring with Oil Stain and Hand Pad Holder from Osmo.

It is best to start with the edges and corners. Always apply the coating with the wood grain. With the practical Osmo Hand Pad Holder, you can reach every corner with ease.

Apply Osmo Oil Stain thinly with the wood grain. The colour intensity varies depending on the tool used, whether a brush, roller or trowel.

After that, apply the oil with a roller, always working with the wood grain. Osmo Telescopic Handle and Osmo Microfibre Roller are recommended for this step. The colour intensity varies depending on the tool used, whether Floor Brush, Microfibre Roller or Double Blade Scraper.

Buff Osmo Oil Stain into the wood surface with a single disc buffing machine and a white pad. After 12 hours, a protective top coat with Osmo Polyx®-Oil Original can be applied.

Buff the freshly applied Oil Stain into the wood with a white pad. For larger areas, it is best to use a single disc buffing machine. After approximately 12 hours, Oil Stain is thoroughly dry. Now the final coat with Osmo Polyx®-Oil Original can be carried out.

Stir Osmo Polyx®-Oil Original in the sheen of choice well and apply thinly with Osmo Floor Brush.

Stir Polyx®-Oil Original well and pour into a tray. Apply Osmo Polyx®-Oil Original thinly and spread out well. Osmo Microfibre Roller or Osmo Floor Brush are well suited for this.

Roller Scraper in the Osmo Floor Roller Set scrapes excess coating from the roller.

With the Roller Scraper included in the Osmo Floor Roller Set excess coating on the roller lands back into the can. This is a good way to save money and resources.

Store the wet rollers are well stored in the Osmo Fresh Box, so that you can start on the next coating project right away. This saves time and money.

If you would like to continue coating the next day, you can store the used roller in the Fresh Box – without needing to clean it. That way on the next day, you can get started right away.