Yes, you can apply Nordic seal over natural seal. Both are building sealers. You cannot apply over classic seal .

Thank you @SJ McCarthy and @G & S Floor Service!!! The fact that we are doing 2 coats of seal and then 2 coats of traffic HD - does that make the floors more durable than 1 coat of seal and 2 coat of HD? We are considering doing an addition coat of HD as we have two dogs and kids. But wondering if that is necessary with 4 coats already....

Thank you!!!!

GS points out that Nordic and Natural Seal are both 'building' sealants. That means they contribute to the finish build up = a good thing. With building sealants you should be fine with 2 coats of Bona HD. If you feel it isn't enough, you can always plan a buff and coat at a later date.

Yes, it makes it a better system. If, you look at pre-finished flooring, a common aluminum oxide system consist of 2 coats of sealer, 1 coat of grain filler, 2 more coats of sealer and then 2-3 coats of finish on top. Giving you a total of 7-8 coats of film building finishes. More and more manufacturers are moving towards more sealers and less finish to improve their systems and save customers money.

Hi - did you end up doing one coat natural and one coat nordic? Would love to see a pic of how it turned out. We are in a similar dilemma in that we like how one coat of nordic looks but the contractor wants to use 2 coats of sealer and the second coat is too white for us. Wondering if we can use natural over it instead.....

Yes, you can apply NaturalSeal so the white is not too intense. Do not apply any other sealer. It will yellow on you.

We are doing exactly that now. Put down 1 coat of natural over freshly sanded redoak and saw too much pink. We didn't want to go too dull or white so we are applying a 2nd coat of sealer, this time with Nordicseal. Finishing with 1 coat of Satin HD. Will post pics!

Pics please! This sounds like a perfect solutions for us

Does anyone have pics of this? And any input on how it turned out? We're looking at doing this same thing on our floors next week! Thanks!

Shawn we must just do natural- I love the tone of the wood untreated and unstained and the natural seems to achieve that. Was thinking of doing the Nordic bc I don’t want it to darken but our sample shows that natural doesn’t really darken it

Does it change color ? if I apply bona natural seal , on bona dryfast stain white?

Is anyone able to share their finished pictures of one cost natural and one Nordic?

Hi Everyone,
Can someone help me here? This thread is super helpful. I’m using 3 coats Nordic seal plus 2 coats traffic HD in satin. The floors are red oak and previously finished with dark walnut. I love what I’m getting but not really liking how I can still see the dark walnut stain between planks? Floor guys are telling me they sanded as much as they could

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Yes, you can't do much about it. It's a 50/50 chance it cleans up. The stain got into the end of the boards and you do not know how deep it goes. You can try filling some of it, if there is a gap. That will reduce the appearance a little.

It is normal. The small exposure of the end of the planks when it was stained DARK (how many years ago?) is to blame. There isn't much to be done. Every time you do a full sand (3 grit levels) you remove 20 years of life off of your wood. If you try to get rid of this tick of colour (which 99.99999% of people will NOT notice...even if you point it out to them) you can and WILL reduce the life of your wood.

This is one of those 'meh' moments. The decision to go DARK some 15-20 years ago set up this situation. Let it be. There are worse things out there then a hint of left-over stain colour in a wood floor....like a roof that needs repair...or hurricanes...tornados...ground water contamination, etc.

In 6 weeks you won't even remember what it was that made you nervous.

You are so right. Thank you so much for all your advice and help

Any pictures of the 1 Nordic+1Natural seals combination? What is the difference between putting first Natural or first the Nordic?

Does anyone have any photos? I am

thinking about doing this combination.

Our flooring company recommended one coat of natural seal first, then one coat of nordic (or 2 if you need) for the nordic look as the natural seal is a little thicker and easier to apply as a first coat than the nordic (the nordic is runnier which means it is easier to accidentally leave lines on a first coat)

I did one coat of Natural and two coats of Traffic HD. There are some roller streaks from from the Natural. I wish we had done two coats of natural.

Just came across this after posting my question in another thread, but does anyone have pictures of a finished product of Bona Natural + Bona Nordic followed by Bona Traffic on Red Oak?

My only caution about Nordic on red oak is that it doesn’t end up looking pink. But maybe that’s not an issue if you put a coat of natural on it first. Share photos if you end up going this route!

We tried to match our red oak stairs to our white oak floors and ended up using minwax weathered oak on the stairs. They pull a tad pink but it was the closest we could get without replacing the entire staircase with white oak treads.

I have one coat of leather and 1 coat of Down.

(a Friday answer for a 4year old post, have a good weekend)