How To Flood Sand Floors

When each coat dries sand the floor lightly with 220 grit paper or 000 steel wool.

How to flood sand floors.

A sand floor requires gently misting the sand surface while avoiding puncturing the pipes until there is an ice layer thick enough to walk on and eventually drive a zamboni on. Keep moving around to avoid overdoing a section of the floor. How to sand a floor. Start sanding with the coarsest grade of sandpaper at a 45 degree angle to the board direction.

Step 1 consider the chance of lead. If you do decide to sand step 2 check for nails and staples. A sand floor can deviate over the years with use. The employees i mentioned had these sorts of older strip floors over screeds.

Hammer in any nails that are sticking up. Always follow along the grain of the wood when sanding. Many finishes take 24 hours to dry. Staining lacquering or oiling you can learn it here.

Then the carpenters would install the wood floor and the flooring companies would sand and finish them. Many older homes contain lead in the floor finishes. When installed properly a cement floor always ensures a precisely level surface to form the ice base. This practice ended in 1978 in the us the 1990s in canada and australia and the 1920s or earlier for most other western countries.

Step 10 give floor a light sand with a floor polisher with fine sandpaper disc attached. You will have to sand around the edges of the room with the edging sander and sand the rest of the floor with the large drum sander. This will remove any of the grain that has lifted and allow following coat to stick more effectively. Complete further coats as per manufacturer s instructions.

A step by step video for a home owner on how to use various wood floor sanders and how to apply the finish. They didn t have flood insurance and couldn t afford to move out of their homes so we dried out their floors. Vacuum up the dust and apply the subsequent coat.