Sanding wood parquet flooring is more difficult than it may seem at first. Think about it… When sanding conventional solid wood flooring, you need to be aware of the direction of the grain of the wood. But because parquet wood flooring has wood grain going in all sorts of different directions, the concept of...
After you’ve sanding your wood floors, you need to seriously clean them. And I mean seriously. That’s because, unless you happen to live in a barn, those wood floors will be stained and sealed. You may skip the staining part, but you will be sealing them. Any kind of dust remaining on the surface...
Q: I’m planning on sanding my pine floor, but it’s got a number of exposed nail heads. Can I sand right over them and will them sand down or what to do? A: Sanding over exposed nail heads in your wood flooring is a beautiful experience. You run the drum sander across and see...
When you’re sanding wooden floors (particularly if you have really crappy floors), the temptation is to really sand the hell out of them. After all, something is motivating you to sand your floors. If you have perfect floors, you wouldn’t be doing this. You sand floors because they are grooved, pitted, stained, worn, scratched,...
