Strip Painted Wood Floors

How to strip hardwood floors.

Strip painted wood floors.

Here s how you should do it. Use a detail sander fitted with 36 grit sandpaper to remove the old finish under places the large sander couldn t reach such as under the toekick and in corners. How to strip varnish off a wood floor. Change the disks on the random orbit sander to 60 grit abrasive and sand entire floor.

Our method for stripping and buffing hardwood floors to refinish them. A wood varnish can protect wood floors while also providing an attractive natural shine. The majority of floors were constructed of wood planks from 8 to 18 wide because narrow boards were expensive to prepare in a pre industrial era and therefore reserved for the best rooms. In some cases though you may want to remove an old varnish to.

A large wide paint brush. If this is the first time you re stripping a hardwood floor it s best if you start out by testing on a smaller area somewhere in a corner. In early houses every feature had a practical origin and wide board painted wood floors were no exception. Related polishing hardwood floors.