Refinish Waxed Hardwood Floor Sandfree
It can cloud the wax coat or damage the wood.
Refinish waxed hardwood floor sandfree. Once applied it takes 24 hours to dry and seven to 14 days to cure. Moreover some waxes yellow as they age. Oxford mills was an extreme job for sandfree. Hardwood floors are subjected to wear and tear from foot traffic over the years and require some type of protective coating to help the color and wood.
Wipe up spills as soon as they occur with a water dampened cloth then wipe dry. How to refinish hardwood floors with wax. Minwax hardwood floor reviver. The high gloss sheen will last up to six months.
We ve been wanting to refinish our old hardwood floors and really liked your advice on how to use grit sequencing. Sandfree rhode island. Flooring experts estimate that hardwood floors can be sanded for refinishing up to 10 times depending on the thoroughness of the sanding and the level of wear and tear on the floor. If there is no wax over the polyurethane wood finish a process called screening which takes off the top coat of.
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. Rachel frampton august 6 2018 at 1 54 pm. Here are a few tips for using a drum sander. A few seconds is all it takes to do the damage.
Call center 888 202 3794. Sanding off floor wax is the first step in refinishing hardwood floors. Drum sanders remove a lot of material very quickly. The floors were 100 years old and had previously been warehouse floors.
Avoid wet mopping large areas of the waxed hardwood floor with water. One of the most common mishaps of do it yourself floor refinishing is gouging the wood with the sander. Designed to restore a wood floor s existing polyurethane finish. Whether you wax your hardwood flooring to fortify a penetrating oil finish or to enhance a film finish such as shellac or polyurethane there s no way to avoid the need to periodically strip the wax.
Situations differ but you may not be able to refinish your hardwood floor more than 10 times. Store and dispose of oil soaked rags properly. Even though nothing had been done to the floors for 50 years sandfree was able to restore them quickly and easily.