Refinshing Painted Floors

We love them here at abm and were so excited when we pulled back the gross carpet in the habitat house to reveal the house had possibly original wood floors in ok shape.

Refinshing painted floors. In a few hours your floors will look as good as new. It s a dusty job that might take all day but you ll get a much smoother flatter surface perfect if you want to apply a finish like epoxy paint. The job requires using a buffer which you can rent at a home center and a vacuum to suck up dust. When scheduling should you paint the walls before or after refinishing the floors.

Go to a rental store and rent a concrete grinder for about 125 a day. It looks like a floor polisher but it grinds down the surface removing about 1 16 in. Flooring experts estimate that hardwood floors can be sanded for refinishing up to 10 times depending on the thoroughness of the sanding and the level of wear and tear on the floor. A step by step video for a home owner on how to use various wood floor sanders and how to apply the finish.

Situations differ but you may not be able to refinish your hardwood floor more than 10 times. When the finish has worn though you re faced with some of the same decisions you would face if the floor were wood. When replacing floor tiles is so costly time consuming and messy a coat of paint seems like the obvious budget friendly alternative but this seemingly obvious diy solution isn t the fix all you d hope for. Refinishing floors and interior painting are two home remodeling and building projects that usually happen around the same time.

It is not complicated or difficult although generally hard on the knees and time consuming and it is a job that most people can do themselves. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem. The hardwood floor refinishing process is easier and less expensive than sanding down to bare wood and takes less time. The majority of floors were constructed of wood planks from 8 to 18 wide because narrow boards were expensive to prepare in a pre industrial era and therefore reserved for the best rooms.

In early houses every feature had a practical origin and wide board painted wood floors were no exception. However there are a few key things to keep in mind about pine floors when you re trying to refinish them. After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles. You can just live with it paint it or cover it with another floor covering.

When a concrete floor begins to lose its luster you can often restore it by polishing it or adding a refresher seal coat. With each slow pass. You either hate them or love them. It was a project i was looking forward to tackling.