Oak hardwood floors wear well and look their best when properly refinished.
Before and after sanded oak floors.
For different dimension of floorings in various locations there are different ideas that i could share to you.
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For this lakeville mn home the owner wanted new maple flooring in an office and dining room that connected to old flooring in the entry way and kitchen.
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So let the actual photos illustrate what conti oak floor refinishing can do for your floors.
But laminated floors glue down or floating floors have only a thin layer of good looking wood veneer over a plywood like base.
Before and after a flooring lace in and the hardwood after we sanded stained and finished the floor.
So just to recap these are all red oak hardwood floors.
A solid wood floor can be sanded several times before that s a problem.
In total there were three different lace ins.
One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that.
The veneer can be sanded once or twice after that sanding will expose the plywood core beneath.
The hallway music room entryway and living room are all original almost 70 years old.
The transformation from an old oak floor to a refinished oak floor can barely be described in words.
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As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look.
How to refinish solid oak flooring.
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.
Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species.
6mm engineered wood flooring can be sanded 3 times whereas 3mm engineered flooring only once.
Situations differ but you may not be able to refinish your hardwood floor more than 10 times.
Refinishing sanding staining polyurethane for hardwood oak floors.
The kitchen was installed two years ago and the breakfast room and pantry were installed about three or four months ago.
Once engineered wood flooring has been sanded and refinished its usually much flatter than previously meaning the subsequent sandings don t need to take as much off.