Sanding Wood Floors With Square Buff Sander

Buffing mainly addresses damage and imperfections in the sealant layers protecting your hardwood floors.

Sanding wood floors with square buff sander. So it is only right that i do an article about sanding wood floors with hand sanders. Then i used the square buff sander on the 4th room because it was so large. You ll need to sand the entire floor not just one section. Remove shoe moulding the wood trim where the wall meets the floor.

The correct way to sand hardwood floors. Three sanding passes with both the drum sander and the edger in one room of 140 sq. Just a note for some readers not all floors are hard wood. Hard work that can be alleviated with the use of a floor sander.

Sand around the perimeter of the room by hand with a 120 grit screen. Before you start sanding remove everything from the room and vacuum the floor. The house is 100 years old and we wanted to keep the character. Rachel frampton august 6 2018 at 1 54 pm.

For most jobs they just don t work choose a sander that has a lever to raise and lower the sanding drum. Allow extra time for houses that are more than 50 years old for jobs that include multiple rooms more rooms means more edging which takes more time and for jobs involving heavy layers of old finishes. I hadn t really considered that you should use multiple grits to sand your floor but your advice to start with the most abrasive grit and work down to the finer grits makes perfect sense and should give us a wonderful finish to work. Use your favorite method to lightly abrade the top layer of finish.

We ve been wanting to refinish our old hardwood floors and really liked your advice on how to use grit sequencing. For the middle of the floor you can use a pole sander with a 120 grit screen or a floor buffer with a pad and a 150 grit screen. Our floors don t look like yours but we didn t want them to look brand new. With that said i have now spoken to way too many people that will be sanding their floors by hand no matter what.

Takes the average customer working alone 5 hours. You can also buff floors made of other materials like tile to bring back their luster. Think twice before you rent a flat pad sander aka orbital or square buff sander. If you have more that 200 sq.

Sanding the floor will kick up a lot of dust so protect light fixtures and tape over electrical outlets. We don t rent flat pad sanders. To screen we recommend using a buffer. The machine of choice for wood refinishing professionals the drum sander has a cylindrical sanding belt that makes quick work of smoothing down wood floors.