Can You Avoid The Pink Hue In Red Oak Floors
I d say the pink hue is coming primarily from the oak if it were red oak but if in fact it is white oak as you say then maybe the stain is a pinkish white.
Can you avoid the pink hue in red oak floors. Obviously for future reference this is the way to avoid your problem in the first place. To attain just the right color depth over a white or red oak floor you may need to apply a few coats of stain giving the floor 24 hours of drying time and depending on the manufacturer s. They look more golden oak now vs red oak. You can tint a 1 component waterbase with dye but it wont give you what you are looking for either.
Resand the floor and try a nuetral stain this will be more of a yellowish color than what you have currently much less red as well if you use duraseal or minwax stain if you use bona stain it will be red. The kitchen floor is only two years old. Don t do anything on the job itself until you work the color and finish system first on sample wood. Both are red oak but the original floor in its raw state had a more red tone to it while the kitchen floor had a more pink orange tone to it.
But also this was another patch job. The living room floor is part of the original hardwood floor that s almost 70 years old. Over time they lightened and mellowed more a golden color we have oil base poly. My red oak floors were pinky went first installed.
You could experiment with some different stains on scrap.