Whenever you are renovating a house or investment property, it's not uncommon to rip up carpets to replace them and decide to refinish hardwood floors that you discovered underneath instead. After all, refinishing hardwood floors is a great way to add value and beauty to a house in a way that carpet just cannot provide.
Once the floor is clean and prepped it will be time to start sanding hardwood floors and get all of the old finishes off. If you have a lot of free time, and a whole lot of ambition, you can sand hardwood floors by hand. However, this will be very laborious and time consuming, so it's not often done.
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What most people do is to visit a tool rental shop or a hardware store and rent a sander. There are two types that are used in sanding hardwood floors, known as the disk sander and the drum sander. While some people prefer the speed and ease-of-use of a disc sander, it can often leave circular marks behind if it isn't used properly.
Therefore, most people will elect to use a drum sander, which goes back and forth with the grain of the wood, making sanding much more uniform and leaving less room for errors.
In the process of sanding hardwood floors, there will be certain areas that you will need to sand using a power sander or a sanding block by hand. These include areas like the edges of the floor, around the vents and any other areas that the sander cannot reach.
Generally, this will not take a lot of work because the sander should do most of everything for you. However, you should add extra time that factors in any hand sanding that you will have to do.
Sanding hardwood floors can generally be gone in about 2 to 3 passes. Of course if you have an older floor with a lot of built-up finishes, stains, or paint, you may need to make more than that to smooth it out completely. It all depends on your floor, but you should always sand slowly so that you don't sand too much because once the layers are gone, you can't put them back.
If you're not sure that sanding hardwood floors is in your skill set and you don't want to risk messing it up, you can find many professional services that will stand in refinish her floors for you. It's up to you, so do whatever works best for your situation.
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