If you re replacing an old floor with a new one your first task will be to get rid of the outdated flooring material.
How to grind wooden floor.
Use a pry bar to pull up hardwood floors one section at a time or unfasten carpet or laminate and roll it up from one end.
If you have a vinyl floor you may be able to install your flooring directly on top of it.
The first commandment of sanding.
Watch to keep the scraper level not angled and not.
Multiply length times width of the room.
Determine how much flooring and materials will be needed.
About half the floors we will be sanding is a regular hardwood floor and the tiles and herringbone are about evenly over the other half.
If the floor sanding is good you will use either oil or water based polyurethane liquid to paint the floors.
Similar to how you can grind down a wooden floor you will need to do the same thing for concrete warping.
Lot of it is hallway with a ton of corners.
Small humps and dips can be ground out of a concrete floor with a sander or a grinder but if you have larger humps in a concrete floor the best option is a concrete grinder.
Remove any carpet or other flooring.
Finally decide what type of material is required to refinish the floor.
Hardwood floor sanding is a skilled job that takes practice and experience.
An educational video for public use.
There are more ways to ruin a hardwood floor than there are to sand it properly.
Remove the existing flooring.
It s incredibly fast and dangerous.
Or you can flip your edge sander over turn it on with 100 grit sand paper on and gently grind the scraper to produce a sharp edge.
Sand with the grain.
But when you have a lot of wood to grind off break that rule and run your belt sander diagonally across the grain at about 45 degrees.
Add about 10 to that number to account for any possible mistakes and warped boards.