How To Finish Real Wood Floors

Unlike some hardwoods oak continues to be relatively abundant and most oak floors are solid wood.

How to finish real wood floors.

How to install unfinished oak hardwood flooring. Recoating works on solid wood laminated wood and parquet floors alike. If your floor s finish was applied before the 1970s it s probably wax old fashioned varnish or shellac. Despite the ever increasing selection of hardwood flooring materials available oak continues to be the standard.

It opens the pores in woods and damages the finish causing irreversible damage to any wood floor use the right cleaners for hardwood floors wood is probably the easiest floor covering to. How to refinish solid oak flooring. One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that. Floor finishes can emit harmful vapors so be sure the area is well ventilated as you work.

Follow the grain of the wood. This is a property that makes hardwood floors more durable than for instance a pine floor but also makes them more difficult to finish. Select a stain that won t raise the grain of the wood or you ll have to sand the floor after applying the finish. It is one of the most abundant.

But a new coat of polyurethane may not stick to your existing finish. Hardwood floors tend to be resistant to soaking up liquid spills owing to the closeness of the grain. Once with the 80 and then the 100 grit. Because we were sanding new floors after the first sand at 80 grit we were able to wood fill all of the nail holes and knots in the floor next if you are sanding old wood floors you will do wood fill after you have sanded edged twice.

Try to apply as even a coating as possible.