The wife and kid left for the weekend so i got busy. My weekend project entailed me smelling fumes all weekend

I rented a floor sander to sand our hardwood floor in the kitchen. Its been 20 years and 1 husky worth of damage.
It took about 5 hrs total to sand the entire floor. All the wear damage came out really easy.

Before






After some sanding








We picked a Cherry stain for the oak floor. This is after Staining and 4 coats of Polyurethane.

 

Overall im very pleased with the results. I may take the palm sander with 150-220 grit after 72 hrs and sand the whole floor smooth, remove any little imperfections and hand brush a layer of poly on to get the smoothest finish i can


Now to paint the walls and stain the new baseboard trim.

 

^ nice.

1) what grit did you use sand the damages away?
2) did your floor come out even or were some areas sanded deeper that the other?
3) what roller did you use for the stain and urethane
4) are you going to put moldings on the wall at the bottom?
5) sorry for so many questions, but i was thinking about doing this

Thnx

 

1).I started out with 36 grit, then 50, then 80. Stained and sealed.
2).Floor came out even. The sander had 3 7" round sand disks on the bottom that rotated and they were on something that rotated so it was like a Dual Action sander. It didnt bite or hook and gouge the floor.
3). I used a 12" pad designed for applying stain.poly
4). Yes, as stated in post 2 i have to paint the walls now (not from sanding or any thing, but because im choosing a different color) an stain the base board trim.
5). No problem. Over all it was very easy, jut took some time to do. I would recommend it to any one with hardwood floors in need of repair.

6). Also like i said im going to let the poly set up and most likely sand it smooth with a DA sander and then Hand brush the final coat on with a 3-4" brush for the best finish (I) can get.

 

Wow what a world of difference. Nice choice in color.

 

Does sanding take out scratches in the wood or does it depend on how deep they are?

 

It depends on how deep they are. I had some pretty significant scratches from over the years that sanding took out, or minimized to the point you cant tell any more.

 

Wow nice work, excellent choice on the finish.

 

Thanks. Hopefully the wife likes it she hasn't seen it yet.

 

Oh I'm sure she will love it.

 

Looks really nice. I wouldn't bother with the palm sander -- it's a floor. The smoother you make it from this point, the more the scratches are going to show.

 

How did you deal with the dust generated by the sander? Did the little vac that is hooked up to it really suck up all the dust?

 

Yea, im kinda like that though. There are a few areas that id like to touch up. The wife said it looks fine so ill probably end up leaving it but i know i always can if i want to

 

Believe it or not there was almost ZERO dust. I was amazed.

 

Looks great, that was a lot of work for one weekend. How did everything dry so fast?

 

Yeah I figured it depended on how deep they were.. may have to do the same thing before I sell my house.. my dog has made some nice marks in the wood

 

wow, great results. My 3 dogs are one reason we can't have wood floors.

 

Great job! Love the new color.

 

Thanks.

About every 3-4 hrs for the poly, i had to give the stain 24hrs to dry, which made for a all nighter on sat.

 

I thought wife and kids out of town = drinking beer and watching TV.




Really nice work and very quick turn around. So was the whole project a surprise for the wife or just the results?

 

Like new again. I love that about wood floors. looks great.

 

Usually is,

She knew about it just not how it looked. She liked it.

 

looks amazing!!!! Have you thought about putting some 800 or 1000 grit on the sander and lightly going over the floor to get a smoother and more polished look? (I'm no wood or floor expert, just using some curiosity)

 

Yea i though about taking the buffer to it.

 

As awesome as this is, I really wish I didn't see this thread.

We're under contract for a house (thread later if things go well this week with inspection and appraisal) that could stand to have the floors refinished. I talked with a guy that did some tile work for us before and he said he charges $2.50/sf to sand, stain and finish the floors. It sounded pretty reasonable until you posted this. Still, because of time constraints, I don't think I'd be able to do this myself before moving in. Even having someone else do it before we move in might be difficult.

BTW - did you have help moving the furniture and prepping?

 

Nice work Kris.

 

I had a friend help me move the stove, the fridge is on wheels and i rolled it out myself. Ill have help moving things back so that i dont scratch the floor.

 

Any pics of the finished project?

 

Here are a few with the trim up and the new wall color. rest of the cabinets are a mess, wife was baking for a work party this am.

 

Ill try to pick up and get better pics

 

Awesome. Thanks for the pics. These work just fine. I mainly wanted to see how the dark furniture would look against the red-ish floors.

If you really feel like being overly helpful, you could paint your baseboards white and your walls a neutral tan so I get the complete picture.

 

Sure ill get right on that.

But that aside, the trim was white and looked really good with the floors and sand color walls. The wife wanted a creamish color wall and that didnt look good with the white trim so i replaced it with natural.

 

I agree that with the lighter walls, the white trim wouldn't have worked as well as the wood.

The house already has decent, upgraded, white baseboards and our floor guy said he didn't need to remove them before refinishing the floors. He did say there would be some stain bleeding on them, but he would touch them up after the floors were done.

 

Nice work for sure! well done

 

Wow!
World of difference. Looks great!

 

I've been on this same project too, just over the past 4 weeks .
Sanding, buffing, then 2 coats of stain (minwax- red chestnut), and just finished the 3rd coat of poly. I will be painting the walls too (Behr-clay pebble).

 

Its a decent amount of work but the result knowing you did it is worth it

 

That's quite the undertaking. Nice job.

 

I <3 that cherry stain. I sanded my dining room floor, the previous owner had 3 little kids so there were some scratches from the chairs and what not.

My protocol was

Power sanded hardwood floor in hallways and dining room with 36 grit, 60 grit, than 100 grit sandpaper using an electric belt sander the size of a lawnmower. Stained twice, varathaned three times. There were scratches previously in the hardwood from chairs and tablets, now it is smooth like a baby's behind with a deep rich finish. I had so much dust I needed to use a mask and empty the bag every 30 minutes or so. Did most of it myself spread over a couple weekends.

 

looks very cool....so how did u get around while it dired?