 How To Sand Wood Floors WITHOUT Leaving Machine Marks!
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Buying this eBook will be cheap insurance when it comes to sanding your wood floors. This is a must read before you pick up that floor sander. It may save your floor from a fate worse than death. When pulling around that heavy floor sander, you need to think about gouging or sanding your floor unevenly, I will teach you how to make a perfectly flat floor. I will also teach you how to sand to ensure when you apply stain that it blends evenly. If you want to have a beautiful wood floor, you need to know how to sand extraordinarily well. Any mistakes you make will be highlighted on your once beautiful wood floor. I will not teach you the big box store "1, 2, 3 and you’re done" - this is a professional guide to sanding your wood floor.
I will also teach you the inner workings of a drum sander. You will learn how to prepare your drum sander so that it won’t leave those dreadful chatter marks all over your living room floor. You will be able to select the right kind of sandpaper for the job - every job is different. When you work with your edger, you will know how to avoid those ugly roller marks. Most importantly, if you read this eBook, you will be able to do a perfect sanding job that will impress your family and friends.
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Essentials to getting it done RIGHT... |
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We'll teach you:
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| 1. How to tune-up your drum sander or your rented equipment |
| 2. How to choose the right type of sandpaper for your floor type |
| 3. How to use an edger without effort |
| 4. How to find machine marks in your sanded floor |
| 5. Removing machine marks |
| 6. Avoid grain “dishing out” when buffing |
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If you're thinking of picking up that floor sander, reading this article may save your floor from a fate worse than death! Don’t disfigure your lovely wood floors just to save a few dollars. Staining the wood before applying the floor finish requires a different sanding technique than the method one would use if applying the floor finish directly to the wood. In this article, I discuss both processes.
A pplying the finish directly to the wood is sometimes called a "natural" or "blonde finish" and it quite easy to do. Sanding a wood floor in preparation for a stain, on the other hand, is a tricky job: professional floor sanders are still having some difficulty achieving consistent results with wood stains! And I have to admit that staining
floors -- especially with white and ebony stains – can even give me a case of the willies. But this, dear reader, is a good thing for you. Without feeling this dread, I’m afraid that I wouldn’t be so alert to the many pitfalls that one can run into when preparing a wood floor for a stain.
SANDING A WOOD FLOOR IN PREPARATION FOR A STAIN
I always start this job by going over the whole floor on my hands and knees. This is the only way to check an old floor for split boards and broken top grooves or discover if the surface is too thin or damaged to handle the extensive sanding process that a stained floor needs.
If you’re a professional, this is your chance to decline a job before you end up with bad results. If the floor couldn’t take it – and you do it anyway -- every body blames each other. Just remember that in all the small claims court cases that I have served as an expert witness, it was assumed that the floor mechanic alone had the expertise to determine if a floor could be sanded with good results.
If you’re an amateur and you think you are going to simply rent a floor-sanding machine and sand the floor yourself, please consider the following. I have another (free) article that discusses in detail whether you should consider doing this rather difficult job yourself. It might be better to hire a professional and have him follow the prep for staining that I describe in this article.
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