Refinishing 1 4 Inch Hardwood

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Refinishing 1 4 inch hardwood. Solid hardwood is generally 3 4 thick where as most engineered hardwoods are 3 8 or 1 2 thick. We cleaned the floor thoroughly with a hoover floorm. Note too that if you have hand scraped flooring refinishing it will remove that effect so refreshing the finish first is an attractive option. Prefinished floors cannot be refinished as many times as plank floors which are sanded and stained in the home.

Our house was built in the 60s and the hardwood is super thin with a walnut inlay. Many prefinished floors are only 1 4 inch thick. Follow these steps to refinish hardwood floors with a professional quality result. In this video i teach a college student how to give new life to an old hardwood floor in her apartment.

Second floors must be at least 3 4 inch thick to refinish otherwise you risk sanding down to the sub floor. We use this benchmark as a way to calculate the approximate number of times a floor can be refinished. The cost is 25 to 33 of the cost of refinishing the engineered wood floor. Refreshing should be done every 4 7 years depending on how much traffic the floor receives.

For a 2 000 square foot house that can mean a bill as high as 8 000. Sanding this coating off takes a lot of work creating a lot of dust. Solid hardwood needs to be nailed into plywood and can not be nailed directly into concrete. With an engineered hardwood floor that number won t be as high.

It s about 1 4 inch thick and nailed straight through the plywood sub floor which looks really creepy from the basement. It is possible to complete an entire 2 000 square foot home in as little as four days for about 700. The average refinish removes about 75 to 1mm of the floor s surface. Rosemary first if you in fact have 2 1 4 inch the width will match.

The standard size today and for the last 80 years is 2 1 4 so that s not a problem. Sure waterproof flooring gingerbread oak 6 5 mm t x 6 5in w x 48in l click engineered hardwood flooring 21 67 sq ft case.