Solid timber floors are the best choice in flooring. It doesn’t run out of style, durable and eco friendly, it gives healthier indoor air. Furthermore, timber flooring increases the value of your home; it provides elegance and warmth to your house. It is easy to maintain since it’s naturally shiny and smooth. 

Solid timber wood can last even for a hundred years and still look new; the trick is in the treatment. When it becomes old, rough, scratched, and tarnished, you can just sand and polish it again, and voila it is as good as new. Sanding and polishing bring even old wood back to life. Whether you are going to hire a professional or prefer to do it yourself, some tips can help you prepare to read it.

Have a Plan for Your Course of Action

Assess the condition of your timber floor, know how much work it will take, plan what you will do. Prepare the things that are needed. Floor sanding takes a lot of hard work and patience. You have to be very careful if you are going to do it yourself sin>ce hardwood is by far the most expensive flooring there is. You have to know more about it, or else you can do more harm than good or end up ruining your timber floor.

Prepare Your Work Area

As sanding is a very messy process, you need to protect your furniture from dust, have it transfer to another area of your house, and cover it. Close all your doors, remove curtains, sealed air vents and fireplace and cover your windows as well. And time may come that you may need another place to stay if some finishes with toxic based need to harden first and also it might emit a foul odor that will make it hard for you to breathe. 

Furthermore, you need to clean your floor before sanding. Remove all visible nails, tacks or staples, carpet underlays, and adhesives. Put patty if necessary to plug holes. Sanding does not begin until your preparation is complete.

Sanding Your Timber Floor

Specialized machines are used to sand timber flooring. A drum sander, along with the edger machine, is needed for areas that are challenging to reach like corners and stairs. The modern sanding machine is equipped with a dust collecting bag for the cleaning process. You also need two kinds of sandpaper, the coarse and the fine one. A high number of sandpaper implies a fine one, and the lower name implies the coarse sandpaper.

In sanding use, the rough first followed by the fine one. 

Sanding is a much-complicated process. If you are not sure that you can handle it right, just click here for more information and leave the floor sanding to professionals as not to cause damage to your wood floors.

Polishing And Finishing

After sanding and vacuuming, putting on a finish coat follows. Apply a minimum of two layers of your choice. It can be water-based or oil-based. Water-based polyurethane is much popular due to less odor and time required to harden. Polished are categorized by the level of how to shine they are, glossy varnishes shine like a mirror and reflect most of the incoming beams, unlike matte or semi-matte varnish that emits less light from the surface. It takes 7days to harden, so it is wise to put back your furniture in their places after three days at the least and avoid dragging your fixtures, or you’ll start or gouge your floor.

With all this in mind, it’s true that sanding eliminates the outer layer of wood and improves the quality and appearance of the surface. It can also remove superficial surface scratches, water stain, and floor in perfection. No matter how old your floor wood is, sanding and polishing will always make it shine. So when you have plans of putting new or replacing your old floors, think of solid timber as the best choice and sanding and polishing the greatest way of taking care of your solid timber floor.

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