Fortunately any clever dog owning diyer can make minor floor repairs without the help of a pro just follow our guide on how to get scratches and stains out of hardwood floors.
Hardwood floor destroyed by sand.
The high gloss sheen will last up to six months.
This is an intensive process that strips everything from the floor by grinding it down to the natural wood underneath all that shine.
I hadn t really considered that you should use multiple grits to sand your floor but your advice to start with the most abrasive grit and work down to the finer grits makes perfect sense and should give us a wonderful finish to work.
We ve been wanting to refinish our old hardwood floors and really liked your advice on how to use grit sequencing.
If your hardwood floor is only lightly worn damaged or scratched you may be able to refinish it without sanding.
Buffing or abrading the existing coat before refinishing or alternatively applying a chemical etching kit.
However heavily cupped wood cannot be sanded down flat.
Sanding levels the edges of the floorboards which can vary from one another by as much as 1 4 inch.
Sand water damaged wood flooring.
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.
Fyi this stuff is not compatible with waxed wood floors.
After drying a wood floor you may have some concave or convex floorboards.
There are two basic methods.
Designed to restore a wood floor s existing polyurethane finish.
Minwax hardwood floor reviver.
This is called cupping heavy sanding with a drum or orbital sander can actually take down some minor high areas.
When you sand your hardwood floors you use coarse sanding equipment to remove all of the finish and stain from your floors as well as smooth out the wood underneath those layers of stain and sealer.
When you get to a wall move the sander back to your starting point and slightly to.
Once applied it takes 24 hours to dry and seven to 14 days to cure.
Then sand the entire area at the same angle moving constantly as you work.
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To sand hardwood floors start by renting a drum sander and installing a coarse grit sandpaper onto the sander which will remove any noticeable damage or old finish from your floors.
Not sanding a freshly laid hardwood floor and finishing it as is makes the installation less messy and time consuming but it would be a mistake.