I have stained a door with a water based wood stain and it looks terrible :eek: can anyone tell me to remove it please??

Ouch Is this a solid wood door or an interior 1/4 inch Luan door? If it's a luan door The stain on it is basically it. The stain sucks into the plywood so deep and plywood with stain on it won't sand enough to get the stain out and stain removers will ruin the plywood.
If the stain it too dark you can use 0 and 00 steal wool to lighten it up. Just on a side note to stain a piece of wood always use a old white sock or a clean rag. Brushing on stains males them way to dark and too much stain is on the wood. I posted a website to remove old finishes off old stained wood decks. There are other "stain" removers in the paint / big box stores. The question is how much time you want to spend on the door. Sanding may be enough to lighten the stain enough
Here is one of the stain strippers that's fairly aggressive to remove stains

DeckStrip Wood Stain and Finish Remover

Mouse over to my name and click on that and Look for my history in answered questions "EXTERIOR WOODEN DOOR" I have instructions on the perfect way to stain and seal a door. Maybe this will take you directly to "staining and sealing a wooden door' for when you start over

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/interi...ml#post1493827

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Thanks for replying to my question, the door in question is solid wood but only pine so it is very porous (I have since learned). I used a standard water based wood dye from a very well known DIY store (rhymes with bee and queue) and on the tin it says how easy it is to apply. I tested it first on a bit of old wood and it was fine but on this door it has proved to be a nightmare. I have ordered this product:
Wood Stain Remover
What do you think??

I have stained pine fir solid woods doors with a miniwax water based stained and the doors have blotches on certain panels. How do I go about evening the blotches out. Basically removing the stain.

What do you recommend?

I see jjeff has since gone off and started his own post which is the right thing to do. I'd say that water based stain remover is well worth a shot. Let us know how it works.

Pine is a soft wood, and always sand lightly before applying any stain type.

You used water stain, so you won't need to use any thing very strong to get it out. If it is solid, use a fine sand paper instead to light it up and to open the wood better.

Do you know how you plan to finish it after you clean it up? You will still have some stain on it, but if it's solid, then you should be able to get the majority of it to lighten it.

Sanding it will help open it. Let's be glad it was oil based, eh?

Make sure that after you sand of lightly the water based stain, that you then use a lightly dampened, but clean rag to clean off all the fine wood dust from sanding.

Blotches comes from not sanding before applying a stain. Water contact can do this too depending on the minerials in it. Doors sometimes come with a sticker on it can leave a film that will not take stain well.

Sand nicely, (but not hard).