Sanding Marks On Wood Floors

A well sanded floor will be a breeze to stain and finish and this article will save you from hiring the wrong contractor.

Sanding marks on wood floors. Hardwood floor restoration can be very challenging. Bleach formulated for wood floors may be worth a try but in my experience the results are mediocre at best and at worst the wood is left pitted and blotched. How to sand a dark stained floor. Swirl marks on a wood floor are a common problem that often occurs as the result of improper sanding techniques or dirt getting under the sandpaper.

Rubio monocoat recommends finishing the hardwood with 120 grit so that is what i did. Water stains usually disappear after a couple of passes of the sander. But when i do stair treads i can hand sand even the small vibrator sander marks out again with a dulled 80 or 100 grit silicone carbide floor sanding paper. Especially after years of foot traffic dropped items scratches from bedposts fires and floods have left behind all sorts of damage.

Over the last century these floors have seen everything. This comes from uneven stain application or the variations in. I use a hand sanding block to keep from making gouges in the fine surface of the wood. For us refinishing the hardwood floors in our home meant dealing with all those things.

This only works on real wood floors not bamboo. But stains caused by pet urine often penetrate so deep into the wood that you just can t sand them out. If you have an engineered wood floor with a real wood surface make sure the real wood surface is more than 1mm thick sanding usually takes at least this much wood off the surface so a thicker layer is required for a complete sanding. The most efficient method of doing this is to begin sanding with a coarse enough grit of sandpaper to cut through and remove the problems quickly then.

The objective of sanding wood is to remove mill marks which are caused by woodworking machines and to remove other flaws such as dents and gouges that may have been introduced in handling. Many contractors use an improper grit sequence with the big machine which leads to sanding marks. A complete sanding removes scratches but beware. Dark stained hardwood floors are often subject to blotches picture framing and halo effects.

We teach that you should skip only one grit in a sequence but in my area many contractors go from a 36 grit right to an 80 grit on the big machine followed by 100 grit on the buffer. I do have another article on how to stain a floor and another on how to apply polyurethane to a floor. After removing the swirl marks and imperfections sand the entire floor again with 60 80 grit followed by 80 100 120 grit. Walk on wood mchenry ill.