Bad Sanding Hardwood Floors

Despite a background in art history and english literature she s spent 13 years sanding hardwood and teaching others to do it themselves.

Bad sanding hardwood floors. And competing in roller derby in her spare time. A step by step video for a home owner on how to use various wood floor sanders and how to apply the finish. Refinish hardwood floors with a recoating kit and the other items shown above. Instead use a simple chemical etching technique and apply a new topcoat of finish.

So it is only right that i do an article about sanding wood floors with hand sanders. By sanding your floors yourself you could potentially save hundreds or even thousands of dollars so long as you do it right. So let s get into the topic of painted hardwood floors. Here are some of my most important tips on how to sand hardwood floors.

We call this process rough cutting. Sanding hardwood floors is a big messy and expensive job and there you have three good reasons to avoid doing it. Even if you have the budget for it and can take a vacation while the work proceeds your floor may not be a good candidate for sanding. It may be over sanded or it may have a veneer that s too thin to sand.

Well it wasn t exactly painted. The truth is i live in a conservative area. Bad floor finishing job. With that said i have now spoken to way too many people that will be sanding their floors by hand no matter what.

On older floors the first step when sanding is to choose an aggressive grit like 24 grit per square inch to level the boards one to another and remove imperfections if possible. So says our expert kadee macey owner of pete s hardwood floors in st. It also works on plastic laminate floors. The total bill for this.

Do it yourself or hire and pay someone else to do it for you. Renew the finish on your wood floor without the hassle of sanding. We called it pickled but the floor guy first bleached the oak hardwood floors. When starting in the flooring business very often beginers are being asked to learn floor refinishing while sanding the edges.

Sanding a wood floor is a multi step process. Not that a painted floor is radical but not the most conventional however we did a painted floor one time about 20 years ago. Don t be afraid to use new belts and more than one. What you see in the picture above is definitely the job of a beginner in the floor refinishing business.

The result is a fresh new looking wood floor. As i have said many times before sanding hardwood floors by hand can be a lot of hard work. That way you ll get a heads up on and hopefully the knowledge to avoid some of the problems you might encounter and some of the mistakes beginners make. None of it is rocket science but it will help you to read through all the sanding pages including first things first working with sanders and edgers and the sanding faq before you begin.