Bad Sanding Hardwood Floors

Despite all of this there are still finish marks on the floor.

Bad sanding hardwood floors. By sanding your floors yourself you could potentially save hundreds or even thousands of dollars so long as you do it right. Don t be afraid to use new belts and more than one. Although our hardwood floors took months to restore the actual sanding staining and sealing happened over one single long weekend. As i have said many times before sanding hardwood floors by hand can be a lot of hard work.

This does happen occasionally but not too often as even though we aren t the least expensive flooring installation and finishing company around normally when everything is considered quality price reputation dust free sanding etc. Admittedly my floor is over 100 years old and pretty warped. This is a very tiring task to complete especially if you re not used to it. So let s get into the topic of painted hardwood floors.

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. Bad floor finishing job. Not that a painted floor is radical but not the most conventional however we did a painted floor one time about 20 years ago. The truth is i live in a conservative area.

And competing in roller derby in her spare time. With that said i have now spoken to way too many people that will be sanding their floors by hand no matter what. It may be over sanded or it may have a veneer that s too thin to sand. If you enjoyed this wood floor restoration take a peek at this 500 kitchen restoration we did in our home.

Hard work that can be alleviated with the use of a floor sander. It might be way easier to do an even sanding job on a newer floor that hasn t had 100 years to move around and become uneven. Well it wasn t exactly painted. So says our expert kadee macey owner of pete s hardwood floors in st.

Here are some of my most important tips on how to sand hardwood floors. Sanding hardwood floors is a big messy and expensive job and there you have three good reasons to avoid doing it. The end result will be blotchy because i couldn t get the wood to an even color. When starting in the flooring business very often beginers are being asked to learn floor refinishing while sanding the edges.

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. Despite a background in art history and english literature she s spent 13 years sanding hardwood and teaching others to do it themselves. If your hardwood floors are in need of refinishing you have two main choices. We called it pickled but the floor guy first bleached the oak hardwood floors.

Do it yourself or hire and pay someone else to do it for you. What you see in the picture above is definitely the job of a beginner in the floor refinishing business. We recently bid on a 1200 square foot flooring project and were not chosen by the owner originally.