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Title: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: Roger2561 on February 19, 2016, 05:11:28 PM
Hi all, I have attached 2 pictures of a floor I sanded and finished with polyurethane.  To sand it I used a random orbital sander, much more forgiving for a beginner like me.  I used to 2 coats of polyurethane.  I hope the pictures come out.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: fireman69lfd on February 19, 2016, 06:01:13 PM
Looks good. Lots of hard work, but satisfaction of a job well done !
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Post by: coolidge on February 19, 2016, 06:12:06 PM
Pumpkin pine? Looks great.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: Roger2561 on February 19, 2016, 06:30:04 PM
Coolidge - Thanks, I appreciate that.  I do not know what type wood it is.  I checked with one of my older brothers whose been a carpenter for over 35 years and he thought it was a fir floor but I have no clue.  The boards are 3 1/4 inches wide by 3/4 of inch thick, tongue and groove.  Roger
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: braveblaster on February 19, 2016, 06:47:15 PM
No stain, just clear coat after the sanding?
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: Roger2561 on February 20, 2016, 05:12:36 AM
No stain, just clear coat after the sanding?

That's correct, no stain.  Just 2 coats of polyurethane. 
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: coolidge on February 20, 2016, 05:32:39 AM
I have a pine floor that is going to get refinished in July, and I am going to put a wide pine floor down in another area, will post pics when they get done.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: braveblaster on February 20, 2016, 08:23:23 AM
No stain, just clear coat after the sanding?

That's correct, no stain.  Just 2 coats of polyurethane.

Fine job for sure!
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: Roger2561 on February 20, 2016, 05:04:52 PM
I have a pine floor that is going to get refinished in July, and I am going to put a wide pine floor down in another area, will post pics when they get done.

Please do.  I've been told that a wide pine floor is very pretty.  Roger
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: coolidge on February 20, 2016, 07:34:33 PM
I put a wide pine down in the hallway upstairs, looks ok, I didn't have the time to do a very good job as my son was 5 weeks early. He spent a few weeks in the hospital, so I took some time of and every few minutes I wasn't with him I was working on that.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: BoilerHouse on February 21, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
Those floors look pretty awesome.  I also live in an old farm house (nothing works but the owner).  Ugly carpeting is way beyond its "best before".  I will have to pull it up and see whats under there. 
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Post by: GCTerpfan on February 22, 2016, 09:00:05 AM
I thought I was going to have a project like this with the first house my wife and I purchased.  We purchased it from the kids of a gentleman who had just passed way in his 80's.  He had built the house himself in the 1940's.  The house had green shag carpeting in it that we were told was installed over the hard wood floors in the 70's. I planned on pulling up the carpeting and repairing and re-finishing the hard wood floors but when I pulled up the carpeting the floors were spotless. I simply had to mop them and they looked like the day the were installed.  I found out later that the mother used to make the kids put old socks on their hands and buff the floor with wax every month until they decided to cover them up with carpeting.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: coolidge on February 23, 2016, 07:10:55 AM
Too bad all those old floors were covered with carpet, I suppose it was warmer walking on then cold hardwood.
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Post by: kommandokenny on February 24, 2016, 03:38:49 PM
Ya got hardwood,, ya want carpet.
ya got carpet,,, ya want hardwood...........been married 32 years,,  what I notice
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: mlappin on February 24, 2016, 03:45:30 PM
Tore the old upstairs carpet out, nothing exciting there, I’m guessing poplar boards. Been painted who knows how many times, have also shrunk some as well. Everything creaks when walked on, will either nail em all tight with the framing nailer loaded with some mini ringshanks or tear em up, replace with tongue and groove plywood and cover with something else.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: patvetzal on April 11, 2016, 03:32:05 PM
We started out with the idea of laying about 100 sq ft of poplar (we had it in the barn) in the front hall. A year later we had put down over 2000 sq ft of it. Total cost was about $1/sq ft sanded, stained and urethaned.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: mlappin on April 11, 2016, 09:57:29 PM
We started out with the idea of laying about 100 sq ft of poplar (we had it in the barn) in the front hall. A year later we had put down over 2000 sq ft of it. Total cost was about $1/sq ft sanded, stained and urethaned.

How does a poplar floor look?

We have tulip poplar here, kind of a greenish hue to the wood when dry.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: coolidge on April 30, 2016, 05:09:17 AM
Finally got the last coat of urethane on this wide pine floor.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: Roger2561 on May 01, 2016, 07:47:37 AM
coolidge - That looks great!   :thumbup:  Roger
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Post by: coolidge on July 06, 2016, 03:59:16 PM
Another weekend project.
Title: Re: Sanded and Finished Floor Project
Post by: Roger2561 on July 09, 2016, 03:30:41 AM
That's a sweet looking floor, Coolidge.  Great job!  Roger