Sanding And Painting Wood Floors

By sanding your floors yourself you could potentially save hundreds or even thousands of dollars so long as you do it right.

Sanding and painting wood floors. Soooooo after years and years of living with hardwood floors which i loathed trying to wait patiently until we had enough money to get new floors i caved. A little basic knowledge of sanding and preparing wood before staining will help your staining project go faster and easier. Remember it must be a special paint for painting wooden floors. Lower numbered grades denote.

A step by step video for a home owner on how to use various wood floor sanders and how to apply the finish. For example your floor may be engineered hardwood and you may have over sanded it and worn through the veneer. In early houses every feature had a practical origin and wide board painted wood floors were no exception. I m painting old oak floors and i have tried to do everything by the book sanding from 150 to 250 two coats of sw paint and primer not by the book 24 to 72 hours dry time sand between coats vacuum and removed all dust then 3 coat oil fast dry poly for floors same dry time 24 72 and 250 sand paper the finish is pretty but the satin dried.

You don t need to completely sand them just remove the gloss from. Now let s see how to paint a wooden floor without sanding. Unless you really know what you re doing and know what you re getting into. The grade or grit of sandpaper is based on the number of sand granules per square inch of paper.

If your hardwood floors are in need of refinishing you have two main choices. These mo fo hardwood floors would not be sanded. Then pour it into a tray of paint especially to pass the roller and remove excess paint from it. Open the paint you ve chosen in your diy store.

The majority of floors were constructed of wood planks from 8 to 18 wide because narrow boards were expensive to prepare in a pre industrial era and therefore reserved for the best rooms. Floor work is an exhausting back busting job. Our kitchen when we bought the house before painting the wood. To hardwood purists painting a wood floor is almost a sin but sometimes there s no better way to reclaim an old floor.

Open it and stir it to make it uniform. If i couldn t sand then painting the wood floors wasn t an option. But here s what i think is always a bad idea in terms of painted wood floors. Do it yourself or hire and pay someone else to do it for you.

Make sure your floor hasn t been waxed before painting and remove the wax if it has. Using a square pad sander or by hand rough up the finish on the floor with 150 grit sandpaper. How to paint wood floors.