Wooden floor restoration?

[Chaang]

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• Chaang
• 24 Feb 2013
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• Chaang
• 24 Feb 2013
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• Chaang
• 24 Feb 2013
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Hi,

I have just pulled up my carpet and found these floor boards. Apparently they are maple.

Can I restore them somehow?

How?

Mick

 

[lymmranger]

hire a floor sander

...then re-finish with your choice of stain/polish/wax/varnish

Oh and be aware of the humungous amounts of dust this will create - you will find in all your sock drawers etc YOU MUST WEAR A MASK!!!!!

 

[Chaang]

What about the gaps in between?

 

[lymmranger]

well you are presently the proud owner of a poorly fitted wooden floor!

to some extent all wooden floors will shrink and move over time -look at the floor boards of any older house, they will have gaps too.

to answer your question - they dont look too bad can you live with them?

- otherwise you will have no choice other than "fill" - which may/will look poor and eventually crack out

Or lift the floor and re-fit it "tighter" - which will be a mamouth task and not for the faint hearted (and may reveal other problems)

Hopefully one of the specialist wood chaps will be along soon - although I retail flooring I do not specialise in wood

 

[Chaang]

Ok, this is the plan:

Finish getting metalwork out of floor.
Sand with belt and edge or hand sander. (working gradually finer, I will google what grades to use.

Fiinish with something. (Not sure what)

How to i manage the transition to carpet? The carpet is higher than the wooden floor where it meets.

Mick

 

[Chaang]

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• Chaang
• 26 Feb 2013
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What about these bits? I assume this was when my heating was installed.

Should I just take the screws out and countersink them?

I have a few large gaps, can I use the sandings and some resin type stuff?

Mick

 

[lymmranger]

you will be able to use a suitable transition strip, probrably a "single edge"

...they come in metal wood plastic etc - at the worst pop into your local flooring shop and have a look

...by the way if you hire a floor sander they usually come with everything you need (mask sandpaper machine etc)

PLEASE mask off all your doorways thoroughly (seal yourself in the room), it wont stop dust getting in every room in the house but it will help alot

(a certain person didnt do this and well - lets just say she still isnt impressed )

 

[Chaang]

What should I finish it with? I was thinking about this:

http://www.ronseal.co.uk/products/perfect-finish-diamond-hard-floor-varnish