How To Grind Wooden Floor

There are more ways to ruin a hardwood floor than there are to sand it properly.

How to grind wooden floor.

If you have a vinyl floor you may be able to install your flooring directly on top of it. If the floor sanding is good you will use either oil or water based polyurethane liquid to paint the floors. Remove any carpet or other flooring. 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.

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 If you re replacing an old floor with a new one your first task will be to get rid of the outdated flooring material. It s incredibly fast and dangerous. A 4 inch or 8 inch angle grinder can be used with a cup wheel.

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. The first commandment of sanding. Regular wood floor upkeep must avoid expensive wooden floor grinding. Lot of it is hallway with a ton of corners.

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. Hardwood floor sanding is a skilled job that takes practice and experience. Multiply length times width of the room. An educational video for public use.

Determine how much flooring and materials will be needed. Add about 10 to that number to account for any possible mistakes and warped boards. Sand with the grain. Instead of scratching away at the wood fibers the belt will rip them out.

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. Similar to how you can grind down a wooden floor you will need to do the same thing for concrete warping.