Redoing Laminate Floors
Never sand it or the look of the floor will be ruined.
Redoing laminate floors. The hardwood design on most laminate planks is basically stamped on and coated with super hard floor finish and trying to fix it with a sander is like trying to fix a painting with an eraser. The paint experts we spoke to thought we might be mildly insane. Zep hardwood and laminate floor refinisher revitalizes the look of finished hardwood floors by adding lasting shine. It s time to redo if you have cracked ceramic tiles curling asphalt in the basement or garage irremovable stains or even dented laminate floors.
The best way to refinish the floor is to strip off. Laminate is less absorbent than wood and needs specialized floor finishes. If you want to give your floors a reddish tint for example choose a mahogany colored laminate floor finish. That means no sanding.
A laminate floor should be treated like a no wax kitchen floor. The polyurethane finish acts as a wood filler on scratches and dries in 30 minutes leaving a clear coat finish. Engineered hardwood can break easily and it cannot be refinished so you ll often have to replace entirety floor of engineered wood floors when they get damaged. Pergo is out to change that with their new laminate flooring line outlast.
The outlast laminate flooring is 10mm thick making it an extremely thick board compared to many other budget friendly flooring choices. Refinishing a laminate wood floor is completely different than refinishing a traditional hardwood floor. We had a goal to redo the flooring for about a dollar a square foot and we laid out five ways to update vinyl sheet flooring on a budget. A laminate floor may look like hardwood but it isn t and you can t treat it the same way.
Zep floor refinisher is great for residential and commercial hardwood floor restoration projects. Pergo also designed this line of laminate flooring with a different joint system known as uniclic and spillprotect24 technology. Make sure you purchase a laminate not wood floor finishes.