Gently wipe the floor with a terry-cloth mop or a towel wrapped around a mop head. Close the windows and doors to keep dust contained in the room you're sanding. Prep the Perimeter Photo by Reena Bammi Using grit sandpaper, hand-sand the perimeter of the room and any nooks that the buffer can't reach. Rub with the grain 4 to 6 inches out from the baseboard, working over each board until the finish dulls and a powder forms.
Move the buffer from side to side across the floor in the direction of the grain, overlapping each course by 6 inches. The old finish turns to powder as you go, so it's easy to see the areas you've covered.
Keep the buffer moving at all times, but stop every 5 minutes or so and vacuum the pad. Put a clean filter in the vacuum, and sweep the floor using a felt-bottomed attachment. Work in line with the flooring strips, then sweep across them to get any powder that settled between the boards. Finally, dry-tack the floor with a microfiber cloth pushed with the grain.
Cut in Along the Edges Photo by Reena Bammi Cover your shoes with booties and your nose and mouth with a respirator that has organic vapor canisters. Strain the finish through a cone filter into a clean plastic watering can, minus a sprinkler head, then pour some strained finish into a small plastic container.
Brush a 3-inch-wide stripe beside the baseboards at a point farthest from your exit door. If you want your floors professionally refinished, you can find local contractors using several online services like Yelp or Angie's List. You'll want to get bids from three or more companies, which will involve a visit to your home to inspect the floors at no charge.
Before deciding which contractors to reach out to, do the following:. Trowel filling after sanding is the easiest way to repair deep gashes, dings, and gaps when refinishing your floors. But if done during the wrong time of year, it's not a long-lasting fix. In a nutshell, wood compresses during the winter and expands in summer. When you fill gaps between floorboards when it's cold and dry, the material used is often squeezed out during sultry weather.
That's why it's best to fill floors when the humidity is higher during the summer. But even then trowel filling is not a perfect fix, especially when used to patch small crevices where filler can easily come loose.
What to do? Only fill larger gaps. Leaving the smaller ones unpatched will accommodate wood expansion. If you decide to refinish your wood floors, the fun part is picking a new stain color like rich Mahogany, or dark Oak, which are both very popular right now.
If maintained properly, wood flooring can last for a good 20 to 30 years. Reasons to refinish your floor over opting for a total replacement include:. Although floor replacements are less common than refinishing a wood floor, there are certainly times when a complete replacement is warranted.
When it comes to functionality and aesthetics, we know how important your floors are to the overall look of your home. Contact us online or schedule an appointment to discuss refinishing or replacing your floor with our professional services. View Flooring Options by Room How Often to Refinish Hardwood Floors: The Cross-Section Test Figuring out how many times you can refinish your floor — or if it should be refinished in the first place — can be done using the cross-section test. As of this Thursday, March 26, , after 23 years in our current location in Jenks, we are moving our offices and showroom a few miles down the road to a new[ While oak wood flooring is one of our most popular sellers here at Renaissance, many homeowners and builders ask us to install maple hardwood floors, as well.
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