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[Roger2561]

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.

[fireman69lfd]

Looks good. Lots of hard work, but satisfaction of a job well done !

[coolidge]

Pumpkin pine? Looks great.

[Roger2561]

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

[braveblaster]

No stain, just clear coat after the sanding?

[Roger2561]

No stain, just clear coat after the sanding?

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

[coolidge]

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.

[braveblaster]

No stain, just clear coat after the sanding?

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

Fine job for sure!

[Roger2561]

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

[coolidge]

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.

[BoilerHouse]

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. 

[GCTerpfan]

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.

[coolidge]

Too bad all those old floors were covered with carpet, I suppose it was warmer walking on then cold hardwood.

[kommandokenny]

Ya got hardwood,, ya want carpet.
ya got carpet,,, ya want hardwood...........been married 32 years,,  what I notice

[mlappin]

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.