Refinishing Yellow Pine Floors
Education will help you make the decision and proceed on either path.
Refinishing yellow pine floors. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. It is a soft wood. I m back to share a long awaited update on our upstairs renovation. The sap that is in the heart pine will load up the paper within 20 to 30 square feet of sanding.
Yellow pine finishing techniques. May 12 2017 stevie storck. The hardness varies pending on the pine species being used. Technically pine flooring is not a hardwood.
Most floor sanders try to sand the floor with the same grit sandpaper they use for a typical oak or maple re sand job 40 or 50 grit sanding straight with the grain. And it definitely took that long for us. The one downer about oil finishes is the cure time around 30 days to be fully cured. With yellow pine floors the color of the floors doesn t change very much.
It was a labor of love and tons of work. Refinishing hardwood pine floors often sounds like more work than most people want to do but it can be done by most do it yourselfers if you plan and prepare correctly. It is not complicated or difficult although generally hard on the knees and time consuming and it is a job that most people can do themselves. As a result pine tends to dent and scratch a lot more easily.
However there are a few key things to keep in mind about pine floors when you re trying to refinish them. Refinishing pine floors is a big project. Once the oil cured the floor felt a little warmer but the color stayed close to the natural color of the original unfinished pine. Last spring we started work on our master bedroom installing a faux brick accent wall and beginning the process of refinishing the floors.
Yellow pine is a wood commonly used in construction particularly for flooring. We decided that we wanted to keep oir 100 uear old pine flooring in our new home. Refinishing original yellow pine floors. It has several appealing characteristics including its pleasant natural color.
Far from the often formal and expensive look of oak and other even more exotic woods. How to use semigloss polyurethane to refinish a pine floor.