Refinish Your Old Wooden Floors Without Hiring the Best Floor Sanding Professionals

Apr 14, 2016 by

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Elegant wooden floors can typically make any house appear warm and inviting. With time however, scratches and stains could appear. When these start making your floors appear shabby, you might need to hire floor sanding experts for giving your floors a fresh lease of life.

 

How to Refinish Your Wooden Floors Without Hiring Floor Sanding Experts

If your floor shows extensive signs of damage, you will need to refinish it entirely. But, if it’s only the glossy layer of the floor that has worn out, you should consider screening the floor instead. For screening the floor, you’ll need to:

  • Buff the floor with a floor buffer that has the heaviest screening pad
  • Run the machine in the direction of the floorboards and work your way from one edge of the room to the other, as you remove the upper layer of the existing gloss
  • Screen the entire floor before vacuuming thoroughly
  • Load the buffer with a medium-abrasion pad for buffing the floor in a similar manner again
  • Buff the floor with the finest variety of screening pads for smoothening and cleaning the surface
  • After vacuuming, you will be left with a dull and flat floor
  • Pour some polyurethane at the corner of the floor in a line perpendicular to the direction of the floorboards
  • Set the applicator in the floss and pull it backwards slowly over the floorboards, running in the same direction as the boards
  • Repeat this process by adding more polyurethane until you’ve covered the entire length of the floor
  • Let the floor dry for eight to 10 hours
  • Buff the dried gloss by hand with fine sandpaper and vacuum the area subsequently
  • Place a second coat of polyurethane as you did initially and let it dry before hand-sanding it again
  • Repeat this a third time and leave it for two days before using the floor

 

Andes Timber Flooring – The Leading Providers of Floor Sanding Services in Port Hacking

Many people hire floor sanding professionals for restoring their wooden floors. At Andes Timber Flooring, we have over 20 years of experience in the industry. We specialise in providing superlative timber flooring services to clients throughout the Sydney area. To give you flawless flooring, we use the latest machines that comply with the prevailing safety standards. To know more, call us at 0417 270 994.

 

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