As i have said many times before sanding hardwood floors by hand can be a lot of hard work.
Beautiful women sanded wooden floors.
Swirl marks in the wood or if the finish has worn down to the wood in certain areas.
Newly laid floors are sanded to make them 100 level and old floors are sanded to get rid of old tatty wood finishes and level out worn areas.
If you want to apply a finish to your floor it will always have to be sanded and prepared first.
We love them here at abm and were so excited when we pulled back the gross carpet in the habitat house to reveal the house had possibly original wood floors in ok shape.
Situations differ but you may not be able to refinish your hardwood floor more than 10 times.
Experts say you can refinish traditional hardwood floors up to 10 times so with a bit of care your floors should last and remain beautiful for a lifetime.
Rift and quarter sawn select grade no 1 no 2 cabin grade age of floor and lighting.
Use when there is a good deal of flattening of the floor needed.
Store and dispose of oil soaked rags properly.
By sanding your floors yourself you could potentially save hundreds or even thousands of dollars so long as you do it right.
Refinishing them was added to the list of to dos.
Hard work that can be alleviated with the use of a floor sander.
Flooring experts estimate that hardwood floors can be sanded for refinishing up to 10 times depending on the thoroughness of the sanding and the level of wear and tear on the floor.
It was a project i was looking forward to tackling.
So it is only right that i do an article about sanding wood floors with hand sanders.
Do it yourself or hire and pay someone else to do it for you.
The stain colors do come out different on everyone s floors given the wood species e g red oak vs white oak vs fir vs yellow pine etc give the grade of wood e g.
Now that you have a home full of beautiful floors keep them looking new by sweeping and mopping regularly using furniture pads and exercising caution with hard soled shoes.
Wood floor sanding finishing and maintenance.
If your hardwood floors are in need of refinishing you have two main choices.
A step by step video for a home owner on how to use various wood floor sanders and how to apply the finish.
You ve decided you want to renovate your old wooden floor.
With that said i have now spoken to way too many people that will be sanding their floors by hand no matter what.
Use 24 grit sandpaper if there are sander flaws e g.
You either hate them or love them.