An Overview of Floor Sanding

                                 An Overview of Floor Sanding

If your wooden floors are looking scuffed and grubby, and cleaning hasn’t produced tangible results, you might want to consider floor sanding.

How it works:

Floor sanding is the process of removing small imperfections from the floor by sanding them. The floor needs to be prepared for it first by punching down nails and removing staples. The room should be emptied of all furniture and appliances. This process is usually done in two steps. The first part is done with coarse sandpaper. After the rough sanding is done, sand paper with fine grit is used to make the floors smooth and easy to maintain. Sandpaper grit usually ranges from 16 to 150. You need to pick an aggressive grit first and finish with successively finer ones. The speed of the sanding machine should be kept even, and it should never be kept on one place for too long. Doing so would result in an uneven floor in the long run. The kind of sandpaper that is used also has an effect on the finished product.
The finishing depends entirely on the customer’s needs. Some prefer oil for a natural finish, while others opt for varnish.

Things to note before undertaking a sanding expedition is that not all floors might be suitable to it. If the floor has been sanded previously, you might want to test a portion of it first to see if it can take any more. It’s important to sand all parts of the floor equally: if the corners are neglected, they’ll have leftover stains on them. The area should also be vacuumed thoroughly to gather all remaining sawdust.

Overall, it’s a pretty physically demanding project, so you should evaluate whether you’re up for it, or you can simply hire professionals like Gulvkanonen to do it for you.