Many, many of us have DIY'd floors with Bona products. One of their benefits is that most of the finishing products are minimally toxic and quite user-friendly to apply. No reason for special training required to use them. Practice and basic skills don't hurt though!

Red Out is a peroxide-based wood bleach, and as such needs a few more precautions than the finishes. Be sure you've read the SDS and have appropriate PPE. You don't want to splash it in your eyes! I haven't used it specifically, but have often used other similar wood bleaches. They are typically pretty easy to use, self-limited in their action. Lap marks aren't a probblem in general. They will raise the grain, so require sanding afterwards.

There are three pertty extensive instructional videos on how to use it on the Bona web site.

This is bona red out with bona naturals sealer and matte topcoat on red oak floors. Home was built in the 1800's.

It must be the lighting. it neutralized the pink/red in the original wood so much so that it matches the new white oak in adjacent room. In the picture the last room is new white oak.

those are some long boards in the first room! wicked.

@Jay S - would you mind posting more photos of your floors? Also, do you have any with just natural light vs. added light as in the photo above? Thanks!

We used Bona Red Out on our red oak floors and the product did remove the red tint from the floors, but when the contractor stained them with natural stain they turned an golden oak color with dark highlights, that are very pronounced. It brought out the darker tones - Not what we were going for, we regret using this product.

@cwayment - I’m sorry that you‘re disappointed with how your floors turned out - they look really nice in the photo. What “natural” stain was used?

Oh no sorry to read. Was the natural oil based or water?

water based DuraSeal, the color is #110 neutral

I've had a great experience with the Bona Red Out. It's a 2-step process. First step takes out the red/orange color and the second step bleaches it. We then stained with Minwax Weathered Oak. Here are the 4 photos. Photo 1: Existing Red Oak Flooring. Photo 2: Red Out Step 1. Photo 3: Red Out Step 2 . Photo 4: Minwax Weathered Oak. Will finish with Bona HD Traffic tomorrow.

I have a floor that is a mixture of red and white oak (and maybe some other random wood thrown in). I wasn't happy to discover this after sanding the medium brown stain off the floor. Has anyone used Red Out on WHITE oak? Wondering what would happen if i used it on this mixed wood floor. Thanks.

@Nancy Schmelter - do you have some photos of your finished floor? Would love to see it!

Unfortunately it hasn't been done yet, for a variety of reasons. :(

I finally finished mine! I haven't moved back into my old/new house yet, but here are the pics. The Bona Red Out was great!

@Nancy Schmelter, can I ask what color paint you used on your walls? It looks great!

Sherwin Williams Modern Gray SW7632

@Nancy Schmelter, can you list the steps and finish products you used after the Red Out? The floor tone looks much closer to flat cut European Oak.

@dan1888, Here is the process:

#1: Applied Red Out Step 1

#2: Applied Red Out Step 2

#3: Applied Stain - we used Minwax Weathered Oak

#4: Applied 2 coats of Bona HD Traffic

Our original floors were Red Oak. See thread below with pictures before and after each step. Let me know if you can't see/find them and I will send to you.

Hope some of you can help as we are torned. We want to resurface our red oak floor to have the white oak look. Reading through the 2 forum on houzz. some people complained about the pinkish tone from just using NordicSeal.

2 contrators suggested using 2x redout applications. But one contractor said he among with many folks had bad result with Redout and suggested against it.

Now we are torn. Any suggestions? I just havent seen too many reviews on redout online.

We had a Bona certified company do our red oak floors with Red Out, white stain and natural seal and it looks perfect.

Thank you Nilangely. Your floor looks amazing. This is exactly what we are looking for.

Some more pictures before and after using Red Out.

@Nilangely Arzon can you tell me what the name of the white stain is and who makes it? Your floors are beautiful.

I have another success story with bona red out. I have red oak floors and wanted to get a warmer look. My flooring guy sanded then did the two step process and then did a coat of Bona NaturalSeal which has a slight white tint and then bona Mega one. When the construction and eveyrthing is done he will come back and do a final coat of bona traffic. No stain.