Badly Sanded Hardwood Floors

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.

Badly sanded hardwood floors.

And competing in roller derby in her spare time. Here are some of my most important tips on how to sand hardwood floors. Now no matter what they do it shows lines or grooves across the floor. Hardwood floor sanded across the grain.

We used four different grits when we sanded the floor starting with 40 for the kitchen. How to sand your hardwood floors. This story will show you how to refinish hardwood floors and add a new coat of finish directly over the old by first applying a liquid that roughens the old finish so the new finish can bond to it. I have on occasion sanded on an angle about 30 degrees to flatten a floor.

Bad floor refinishing pictures of a terrible floor refinishing project. So it is only right that i do an article about sanding wood floors with hand sanders. Our contractor had one of his workers sand our hardwood floors across the grain. In my fifteen years of flooring i ve had my share of projects where i was called to go and fix some terrible floor refinishing or installation projects of some guy that offered to complete the project for prices that the homeowner should ve known are too good to be true.

I ve never had any issue. Use 120 grit paper to sand the finish around a spot from which it has completely worn. Do it yourself or hire and pay someone else to do it for you. We recently bid on a 1200 square foot flooring project and were not chosen by the owner originally.

They are not at all noticeable unless you get down there to look. If your hardwood floors are in need of refinishing you have two main choices. The coarser paper will cut back the finish more efficiently. Admittedly my floor is over 100 years old and pretty warped.

The end result will be blotchy because i couldn t get the wood to an even color. By sanding your floors yourself you could potentially save hundreds or even thousands of dollars so long as you do it right. With that said i have now spoken to way too many people that will be sanding their floors by hand no matter what. Despite all of this there are still finish marks on the floor.

As i have said many times before sanding hardwood floors by hand can be a lot of hard work. Sand with the grain and create a scuffed area significantly larger than the spot you re repairing. So says our expert kadee macey owner of pete s hardwood floors in st. 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.

Use 150 grit paper if the finish isn t completely worn through or if the floor is finished with oil. Despite a background in art history and english literature she s spent 13 years sanding hardwood and teaching others to do it themselves.