Refinishing hardwood floors costs and home depot rentals duration.
Refinished douglas fir floors before and after.
It is a soft wood.
The hardness varies pending on the pine species being used.
Before you can start installing you need to make sure that you prepare the room.
The dust can get down in electronic equipment and ruin it.
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Amazing before and after duration.
As a result pine tends to dent and scratch a lot more easily.
As with all refinishing projects if you re going to stain you should test it first in an inconspicuous place to see how the wood reacts.
Depending on how hard your family is on floors the refinishing job on your wood floors should last 10 years or more.
Mike the hardwood floor guy assured me that he could bring them back to life.
I wasn t 100 sure that refinishing would work because as the before photos show the floors were in bad shape.
We are now in the process of removing the carpet in the other two.
Refinished doug fir floors.
Upstairs in the bedrooms we have what i believe are douglas fir wood floors.
The floor appears to be in good shape but still has a thin layer of wax finish on it and is otherwise rather raw.
If the staining comes out blotchy use a stain controller first flooring is one of the most common uses of the wood especially in the west where douglas fir is still widely available.
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Like most types of wood flooring fir is considered a unique addition to the home which adds warmth and character that can t be achieved with other materials.
Fir floors are much softer than traditional hardwood flooring making them a bit more difficult to sand and refinish.
Here are the basics of how to refinish douglas fir flooring successfully.
After your final coat of finish is in place let the floors rest for a day or two before walking on them or moving furniture back in.
Technically pine flooring is not a hardwood.
To make the house somewhat liveable i had the floors refinished.
On the janka hardness scale southern yellow pine is 870 douglas fir 660 and eastern white pine 380 compared to red oak which is 1290.
Douglas fir floor refinish.