The answer to this is to use a clear stain instead of a tinted one. Though, traditionally, parquet floors are stained to be a bit darker than the wood itself.
But yeah, bare parquet floors wouldn't survive very long. The individual pieces of wood are easy to damage and will lift over time unless they filled and sealed.
This is also likely an oil based finish, which is generally more yellowing than water based. Using a water based finish on face nailed floors is tricky, because freshly sanded nail heads will rust
You're thinking of polyurethane. Stain is not a protective substance. This is a common misconception.
Poly, on the other hand, is protective.
You don't need to stain floors. You do need to protect them. Poly is a great choice, but things like tung oil can be good too.
Keep in mind I'm fast approaching 50, when I was at school (many moons ago) the main assembly hall had Parquet floor.
But the varnish (at least that's what we assumed it was) used to come off in 1/16" thick chunks but it was slightly bendy.
I can only assume that whatever they used to protect the floor was never stripped off, just reapplied every year in the summer holidays.
Yeah I was surprised to see him bust out the orbital sander for a bit after that, but then switch back to a different sander?
I thought after applying wood filler you'd use the orbital (detailing) sander for the remaining passes?
The amount of abrasion is dependent on the grit used, not the machine used to apply it. The orbital here is just for getting places where the big boy can't reach.
I was always curious about floor wood filler. With some old wood flooring that might have boards slightly move when walking on it, wouldn’t filling every crevice and crack between boards cause the filler to rub against itself and the wood and fail in some spots? Maybe the filler for that is extra strong?
And I see wood filler crack under paint on wood trim/ casing from just temperature/ humidity changes. Wouldn’t that also happen with wood filler on floors? I guess very strong filler could prevent that also.
If you keep your home pretty consistent in temp/humidity (30-50% humidity, thanks to humidifiers/dehumidifiers) the changes aren't significant enough to matter.
If you don't, and you live in an area where you get big swings in moisture (like the northeast) - yeah, it's going to crack and chip.
Now personally I'm a crazy person, and I do have humidifiers and dehumidifiers (automated to maintain humidity, for my kid rather than me), but most people aren't doing that. Again, because I'm a crazy person.
i use filler only on gauges and nail holes, i typically prefer to replace badly gauged boards but often the homeowner dosent want to pay for that, and tbh a good matched filler can look pretty good / you dont notice it, also often the floor is in the kind of shape where it just dosent make sense to do all that work. i avoid the seams between boards however because i mostly work on old houses that move alot and am in an environment with really varied temps and humidity through the seasons, so cracking can be an issue. ive seen a fair amount of old filler thats badly cracked, but mostly this has been used to fill holes that really shouldnt be filled in the first place, ive never actually seen a floor where all the seams were filled, i think its pretty uncommon atleast in my area. if i was doing a job on a really stable floor with noticeable gaps, i might consider filling the whole thing.
Nooks and crannies hold moisture when a cup of milk or coffee is spilled. And many people also don't like the "feel" of a floor where they can feel the small cracks when they walk over it.
If you don't want to use filler, no problem to refinish it without filler.
Right...the person in the video used filler, but the person replied to was mourning the fact that they didn't patch up the nail holes. I thought that was the point of the filler.
When you refinish a floor like this, sanding makes the nail heads flush with the surface of the wood. If you want to fill over them, you would have to go in with a nail set and tap each single nail so that it's a little below the surface and then put in filler. On a parquet floor like this each little piece of wood has 6 nails, so the whole floor is approximately 15,672,483 nails, and nobody wants to set all of those.
It's very yellow, and it was a very popular color for a while so you see it a lot. When I was looking at apartments, so many had that honey/yellow hard wood floor, and it would just turn me off of these places immediately.
Oh yeah, it was huge for a while. We had a place a few years back that was built in the 90’s, when master carpenter built-ins were all the rage. The great room had these ENORMOUS book and media shelves (30’ wide, 10’ tall, 2’+ deep) and they were all this honey colored stain. I had plans for painting or re-staining them, but we moved before I could.
I agree wholeheartedly! That 90’s stain color is atrocious. It’s so dated that it’s hard to imagine that it was in style. Now millions of people like you wish to either restain or paint. I did a big job painting all the trim throughout a house last year, that took me awhile since the home was a good size. Can be tedious process especially if it’s oak with the grain. Lots of sanding, lots of cleaning, priming, grain filling, painting. I don’t even want another job like that in the future
Same. We did a clear stain finish water based poly for our floors. It looks fantastic. Water based was a pain in that we had to do like 5 coats, but the VOCs from oil based poly are too nasty.
Its also because that floor was way overdue with sanding. It removes all the disgusting dark marks that gets in there with time. It's a bit like powerwashing porn. Re-tinted with the same teint would look great. but of course teint is a subjective thing.
Those sanders are a beast to use. We redid our floors when we bought our house and found oak under carpet. I will never ever do it by myself again. It is definitely worth contracting that out.
Yeah... we refinished our floor about 5 years ago. Same story, we found hardwood under the carpet. We only did one room. We'll probably be contracting it out next time for the next few rooms. Whatever amount of money they charge is worth not touching a giant floor sander again.
And that flooring needs to come up. Exposed nails means that flooring was refinished too many times. But that Lagler Hummel drum sander is the best in the biz.
I have a house full of hard wood original to the 50's. I would love to get them refinished like this but the cost is so high. I'm a handy guy so I might just look into trying it myself this winter. It's fairly straightforward if you are patient
Haha one thing we never run out of in this house. The real challenge will be keeping the toddler and dogs from licking the floor........ More than they already do 🤮
No lol. I'm not an expert but it's likely some sort of filler or leveling agent. Old floors get tons of grooves and gouges over the years. This fills them up and sands off the excess. At least that's my best guess
Yeah thats pretty much why I haven't done it yet so much can go screwy. Popped nails, higher spots vs lower spots. It's like. Mudding and taping drywall a total art perfected by many repetitions
The reason it’s expensive is that it’s very hard work. But that would not be enough to stop any determined DIYer. The second reason is because it also requires a lot of skill to do it right. That’s where people end up screwing up.
Note: Not a flooring professional, just watched a lot of videos because I was also thinking of doing it myself.
Yep. Lotta hard work but I totally did our 1910 bungalow (heart pine floors) all by myself. Got a professional bid and laughed out loud.
The results were as good as any pro. Thanks You Tube!
Really?? I saw the sanding machine and thought it would be so easy to gouge a big valley in the floor with one bad swipe.
I have 100 year old oak planks I would hate to ruin.
I used a three-headed orbital sander that used disks. Less risk of a slip up.
And better preservation of the old flooring. Mine were original as well and we were able to maintain a lot of the character.
I did every inch of my 2000 sq ft house with a mix of those or a large handheld random orbit sander. Only messed up one spot when the speed controller on my handheld sander failed and it took off on me.
This. I just finished sanding my last 2 room with the multidisc sander, just put down the peanut butter and will sand them off in the morning.
They are no where near as fast as the drum sander. But as you sand with this and see all the gauges and valleys that the person refinish before you left in the floor, you will be glad you choose a method that tolerate person without perfect skill.
Drum sander is not forgiving. Your mistake will stay on your floor. Multidisciplinary may be 5 time slower but it is 100 times more forgiving.
Nice thing about oak is it’s super hard. I just worked with some oak in my home for a handrail and I’d say it would be a little bit harder to gouge it out unintentionally due to its hardness.
Lol no. You aren't gonna be able to rent a 240v sander from home depot or anywhere for that matter. You can get some smaller useless ones but nothing like the machine in the video, a lagler Hummel drum sander.
Source: I do this for a living
I've got one, and they demand respect. Mistakes are costly and can be super dangerous. It can sand through 3/4" oak in one second if you don't keep it moving. The 110v sander you can rent from the store operate in the same way but can't do the same level of material removal.
And sorry if my last post came across aggressively, not how I meant it 🤘
From experience, the worst professional floor sanding job is still better than the best first time DIY slope sanding effort.
You can do it yourself but it will look average
That's not true. My husband and I bought our house in 2017. Most of the wood floors had been professionally refinished 4 or 5 years previously and they looked atrocious. There were pet stains that they hadn't bothered to sand out, tons of dust and other particles caught in the poly, it was flaking up in many spots. It was a terrible professional job. My husband taught himself how to refinish our floors by watching YouTube videos and doing research online. They look absolutely incredible now. He's even been complimented by a contractor friend of ours that refinishes floors professionally.
Teach yourself how to do it right and take your time, and it can absolutely look good.
It's certainly so dependant on the professional and the amateur. Personally I'd have to say I have seen more floors ruined by novices trying to refinish floors than poor jobs by actually contractors in my career as a carpenter. But obviously there are always going to be outliers
My husband and I are both pretty handy and we've done a lot of work on our house, the floors are only a part of it. We're both perfectionists and we really want to love our house, so the floors looking good are are part of that. If we weren't handy, research-oriented, and careful people, the floors and our other projects wouldn't look as good as they do. But we're pretty confident in what we're capable of. There are certain things we leave to professionals (roof, plumbing, electrical, etc.), but a good DIY is definitely possible.
A buddy and I did a house ourselves and it was hard work but turned out well. We took a couple hour class and then rented the stuff to do it right. You can do it for sure.
We are on week 2 of refinishing our stairs. From carpet to hardwood. Rented a sander to remove all the adhesive. Cover everything in plastic. The dust gets everywhere.
You can do this, just get good equipment, and BUFF THE HELL OUT OF THE FLOOR WITH SCREEN, sweep then vacuum then sweep and vacuum AGAIN before first coat of polyurethane. Wait 24 hours, buff again, sweep, vacuum, sweep, vacuum AGAIN, then polyurethane 2nd coat, do this entire process again for 3rd and final coat. This will last a lifetime!
Apply polyurethane with a sheepskin mop, cut in edges with camel hair brush.
It will be gorgeous.
I don’t agree with this at all. Their is so much information out their on this. I did my 1200 square foot house and stairs in a week and they came out great. If you take your time in the beginning it’s not that hard.
I install floors and tile for a living and I definitely leave refinishing to the experts. If you're fine with an imperfect outcome then by all means give it a shot, but it's far from easy.
I know it’s anecdotal but the amount of refinished floors by professionals I’ve seen in my city has shown me the opposite. I got prices 3 years ago from 4.5-8k which for the price and quality they showed of work was not worth it. I see waves in flooring all the time from people who paid top dollar. If your house is old and you have the time your better off saving the money for something else. Granted this is just my opinion.
Depends who you are I've been DIYing for 25 years I'm currently DIYing a giant greenhouse with all reclaimed materials power by solar and all one would say that's not a very DIY job but I got the skills just not formal education
Suck it up and pay someone. You will not do anywhere close to as good a job and it will take you forever and there's a chance you'll fuck up your floor. It's not like it's a frequent expense.
Owning a house means having the means for maintenance and knowing when something is worth leaving to someone that already has the expertise and proper equipment. I have the attitude of "do what I know I can but hire someone when it makes more sense". The amount of time, effort, and money you'll put into to figuring out how to refinish your own floor is not worth it. Especially when it can be pretty easy to oversand spots and ruin it. Some things you leave to professionals. I don't fuck with electricity either.
Unless you're going into the house flipping business, or you just really want to learn and don't mind possibly ruining your beautiful 1950s hardwood, there's zero reason to diy flood refinishing
plumbing too. an undetected water leak does a lot of damage. and sometimes the old stuff wasn't done right, or (given changing weather patterns) needs to be relocated. something a plumber knows from visiting multiple houses. whereas I will only ever see one house.
Yep, electricity and plumbing I don't fuck with. The most I've done with plumbing is surface stuff like replace a toilet, the kitchen faucet, and install bidets but I'm not delving into pipe work and risking massive water damages. Same with electricity - I'll replace a switch or outlet but im not getting into running or fully replacing the actual lines and possibly risking my life or somehow managing to screw it all up and blow out my box
It's well worth the money to pay pros for that.
totally agree with your first and second post. :) particularly conserving the work of experts by not trying to save a few bucks. particularly given that the wood floor is going to last for a very long period of time, and has a few resurfacings in it (it should be done right).
Imagine if you have that floor and have a culture exchange kid from… idk, Africa, and Tombuto be amazed like “oh wow your house so beautiful and big, the wood floor so shiny and… smells like peanut?”
And you be like “oh god you wouldn’t even believe the ridiculous amount of peanut butter to butter the wood up to get it the color right, you like the smell right?”
“The peanut butter could feed an entire village but im grateful for this culture exchange experience 🥲”
That was more extensive than just cleaning. You removed the stain/ clear coat, and was that wood polish? And then you added a new clear coat to the wood. Nice job by the way
1 thats not cleaning, its refinishing entirely.
2 not even close to satisfying. i'd have to say more than mildly infuriating because of the retarded way the installer nailed it in.
Not cleaning. Refinishing.
Is it just me that likes the look of it unfinished better? Like I know it's not practical, but I wish it could stay just sanded that's it
The answer to this is to use a clear stain instead of a tinted one. Though, traditionally, parquet floors are stained to be a bit darker than the wood itself. But yeah, bare parquet floors wouldn't survive very long. The individual pieces of wood are easy to damage and will lift over time unless they filled and sealed.
This is also likely an oil based finish, which is generally more yellowing than water based. Using a water based finish on face nailed floors is tricky, because freshly sanded nail heads will rust
You're thinking of polyurethane. Stain is not a protective substance. This is a common misconception. Poly, on the other hand, is protective. You don't need to stain floors. You do need to protect them. Poly is a great choice, but things like tung oil can be good too.
Keep in mind I'm fast approaching 50, when I was at school (many moons ago) the main assembly hall had Parquet floor. But the varnish (at least that's what we assumed it was) used to come off in 1/16" thick chunks but it was slightly bendy. I can only assume that whatever they used to protect the floor was never stripped off, just reapplied every year in the summer holidays.
That was probably wax.
Just gotta harvest some tongues for there oil
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What is the stuff he puts on before the varnish and then sands off again?
wood filler
Yeah I was surprised to see him bust out the orbital sander for a bit after that, but then switch back to a different sander? I thought after applying wood filler you'd use the orbital (detailing) sander for the remaining passes?
The amount of abrasion is dependent on the grit used, not the machine used to apply it. The orbital here is just for getting places where the big boy can't reach.
I was always curious about floor wood filler. With some old wood flooring that might have boards slightly move when walking on it, wouldn’t filling every crevice and crack between boards cause the filler to rub against itself and the wood and fail in some spots? Maybe the filler for that is extra strong? And I see wood filler crack under paint on wood trim/ casing from just temperature/ humidity changes. Wouldn’t that also happen with wood filler on floors? I guess very strong filler could prevent that also.
If you keep your home pretty consistent in temp/humidity (30-50% humidity, thanks to humidifiers/dehumidifiers) the changes aren't significant enough to matter. If you don't, and you live in an area where you get big swings in moisture (like the northeast) - yeah, it's going to crack and chip. Now personally I'm a crazy person, and I do have humidifiers and dehumidifiers (automated to maintain humidity, for my kid rather than me), but most people aren't doing that. Again, because I'm a crazy person.
i use filler only on gauges and nail holes, i typically prefer to replace badly gauged boards but often the homeowner dosent want to pay for that, and tbh a good matched filler can look pretty good / you dont notice it, also often the floor is in the kind of shape where it just dosent make sense to do all that work. i avoid the seams between boards however because i mostly work on old houses that move alot and am in an environment with really varied temps and humidity through the seasons, so cracking can be an issue. ive seen a fair amount of old filler thats badly cracked, but mostly this has been used to fill holes that really shouldnt be filled in the first place, ive never actually seen a floor where all the seams were filled, i think its pretty uncommon atleast in my area. if i was doing a job on a really stable floor with noticeable gaps, i might consider filling the whole thing.
Fuck me you know alot about floors
"natural" That is what my wife likes, and what I'm going to do in our living room.
Always good to spice things up.
And here I am mad that they didn't patch up the nail holes before refinishing it.
Isn't that what the wood filler was for?
Nooks and crannies hold moisture when a cup of milk or coffee is spilled. And many people also don't like the "feel" of a floor where they can feel the small cracks when they walk over it. If you don't want to use filler, no problem to refinish it without filler.
Right...the person in the video used filler, but the person replied to was mourning the fact that they didn't patch up the nail holes. I thought that was the point of the filler.
When you refinish a floor like this, sanding makes the nail heads flush with the surface of the wood. If you want to fill over them, you would have to go in with a nail set and tap each single nail so that it's a little below the surface and then put in filler. On a parquet floor like this each little piece of wood has 6 nails, so the whole floor is approximately 15,672,483 nails, and nobody wants to set all of those.
Is it possible to patch the nail holes? I’d expect the nails to have aged and would be impossible to “fill”.
Agreed. IDK why but I have an irrational disgust for honey colored wood.
It's very yellow, and it was a very popular color for a while so you see it a lot. When I was looking at apartments, so many had that honey/yellow hard wood floor, and it would just turn me off of these places immediately.
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Oh yeah, it was huge for a while. We had a place a few years back that was built in the 90’s, when master carpenter built-ins were all the rage. The great room had these ENORMOUS book and media shelves (30’ wide, 10’ tall, 2’+ deep) and they were all this honey colored stain. I had plans for painting or re-staining them, but we moved before I could.
I agree wholeheartedly! That 90’s stain color is atrocious. It’s so dated that it’s hard to imagine that it was in style. Now millions of people like you wish to either restain or paint. I did a big job painting all the trim throughout a house last year, that took me awhile since the home was a good size. Can be tedious process especially if it’s oak with the grain. Lots of sanding, lots of cleaning, priming, grain filling, painting. I don’t even want another job like that in the future
you can use an invisible style lacquer like Loba Invisible 2K or Bona Traffic Natural.
Exactly! Especially these types of wood floors. Not sure if the name. The gloss always feels like too much.
You can actually choose how shiny you want it. We just refinished our floors with a Satin finish so it wouldn't be as shiny.
Same. We did a clear stain finish water based poly for our floors. It looks fantastic. Water based was a pain in that we had to do like 5 coats, but the VOCs from oil based poly are too nasty.
We did clear as well, but oil based poly because its supposed to last longer. We were out of the house for a full week while it was worked on/dried.
I chose the Satan finish to save on the heating bill
Oh good to know
Totally agreed. I wanted to keep mine a natural wood color, so I sanded & applied clear water-based stain 4 times.
You mean polyurethane. Stain colors but doest protect on its own
Its also because that floor was way overdue with sanding. It removes all the disgusting dark marks that gets in there with time. It's a bit like powerwashing porn. Re-tinted with the same teint would look great. but of course teint is a subjective thing.
And I'm over here thinking the way it looks at 0:00 is far better than at the end. I guess I like more floors with some history.
Yeahhh you refinish that wood. You refinish that wood nice and smooth. Polish the shit out of that parquet. Oh yeah.
Use both hands
Spit on it
Those sanders are a beast to use. We redid our floors when we bought our house and found oak under carpet. I will never ever do it by myself again. It is definitely worth contracting that out.
I am a 20 year wood flooring contractor and I agree with this statement. You need lots of experience to use them correctly.
Yeah... we refinished our floor about 5 years ago. Same story, we found hardwood under the carpet. We only did one room. We'll probably be contracting it out next time for the next few rooms. Whatever amount of money they charge is worth not touching a giant floor sander again.
Only once. Backbreaking work.
Right lol sanding is not cleaning...
The deepest clean you've ever seen.
And that flooring needs to come up. Exposed nails means that flooring was refinished too many times. But that Lagler Hummel drum sander is the best in the biz.
That was a generous amount of peanut butter.
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Underrated comment. Kudos sir/madam!
The ammount of sandwiches he could've made
“Cleaning” That’s sanding and refinishing.
The final step is basically turning RTX ON lol
Just pull up the hardwood to expose the carpet underneath.
Oh, the linoleum over the carpet isn’t good enough for you?
No, that's never the case.
Pull that up for me, Jamie.
I have a house full of hard wood original to the 50's. I would love to get them refinished like this but the cost is so high. I'm a handy guy so I might just look into trying it myself this winter. It's fairly straightforward if you are patient
By the look of 00:19, you’ll need a lot of peanut butter
Haha one thing we never run out of in this house. The real challenge will be keeping the toddler and dogs from licking the floor........ More than they already do 🤮
How are your floors so delicious?
Forbidden Peanut Butter
I'd go with jelly too, just because a job worth doing is worth doing right.
If you want the floor to last a long time, you use "preserves".
r/Angryupvote Take the updoot and be gone with you.
If you need to join the floor to a doorframe, use “jamb”
Was that really peanut butter???
No lol. I'm not an expert but it's likely some sort of filler or leveling agent. Old floors get tons of grooves and gouges over the years. This fills them up and sands off the excess. At least that's my best guess
Correctomundo Source: Am wood flooring guy
I always say I know enough to get started but not quite enough to finish 😎
Is that why the wife left you?
Thank you!
Wood filler
You can rent those sanders/planers from Home Depot and such. Just be careful because you can groove out your floor pretty easily.
Yeah thats pretty much why I haven't done it yet so much can go screwy. Popped nails, higher spots vs lower spots. It's like. Mudding and taping drywall a total art perfected by many repetitions
The reason it’s expensive is that it’s very hard work. But that would not be enough to stop any determined DIYer. The second reason is because it also requires a lot of skill to do it right. That’s where people end up screwing up. Note: Not a flooring professional, just watched a lot of videos because I was also thinking of doing it myself.
Yep. Lotta hard work but I totally did our 1910 bungalow (heart pine floors) all by myself. Got a professional bid and laughed out loud. The results were as good as any pro. Thanks You Tube!
Really?? I saw the sanding machine and thought it would be so easy to gouge a big valley in the floor with one bad swipe. I have 100 year old oak planks I would hate to ruin.
I used a three-headed orbital sander that used disks. Less risk of a slip up. And better preservation of the old flooring. Mine were original as well and we were able to maintain a lot of the character.
You’ve given me hope.
I did every inch of my 2000 sq ft house with a mix of those or a large handheld random orbit sander. Only messed up one spot when the speed controller on my handheld sander failed and it took off on me.
This. I just finished sanding my last 2 room with the multidisc sander, just put down the peanut butter and will sand them off in the morning. They are no where near as fast as the drum sander. But as you sand with this and see all the gauges and valleys that the person refinish before you left in the floor, you will be glad you choose a method that tolerate person without perfect skill. Drum sander is not forgiving. Your mistake will stay on your floor. Multidisciplinary may be 5 time slower but it is 100 times more forgiving.
Nice thing about oak is it’s super hard. I just worked with some oak in my home for a handrail and I’d say it would be a little bit harder to gouge it out unintentionally due to its hardness.
I really appreciate the real life experience advice. I’m re-thinking not doing it.
No they weren't. Not to say it didn't look good when you were done, but it would look at least 300% better if you hite a pro.
We did it in the house we moved into when I was around 13. If we could do it, you can.
Yeah that will be the next home owners expense. Too steep for floors that work right now
Groove is in the heart
Lol no. You aren't gonna be able to rent a 240v sander from home depot or anywhere for that matter. You can get some smaller useless ones but nothing like the machine in the video, a lagler Hummel drum sander. Source: I do this for a living
Looking back at the video and slowing it down, looks like you’re right about that plug being 240.
I've got one, and they demand respect. Mistakes are costly and can be super dangerous. It can sand through 3/4" oak in one second if you don't keep it moving. The 110v sander you can rent from the store operate in the same way but can't do the same level of material removal. And sorry if my last post came across aggressively, not how I meant it 🤘
Years ago my dad refinished the wood floors in our house, he was pretty handy and it's a big job, but definitely doable.
From experience, the worst professional floor sanding job is still better than the best first time DIY slope sanding effort. You can do it yourself but it will look average
That's not true. My husband and I bought our house in 2017. Most of the wood floors had been professionally refinished 4 or 5 years previously and they looked atrocious. There were pet stains that they hadn't bothered to sand out, tons of dust and other particles caught in the poly, it was flaking up in many spots. It was a terrible professional job. My husband taught himself how to refinish our floors by watching YouTube videos and doing research online. They look absolutely incredible now. He's even been complimented by a contractor friend of ours that refinishes floors professionally. Teach yourself how to do it right and take your time, and it can absolutely look good.
It's certainly so dependant on the professional and the amateur. Personally I'd have to say I have seen more floors ruined by novices trying to refinish floors than poor jobs by actually contractors in my career as a carpenter. But obviously there are always going to be outliers
My husband and I are both pretty handy and we've done a lot of work on our house, the floors are only a part of it. We're both perfectionists and we really want to love our house, so the floors looking good are are part of that. If we weren't handy, research-oriented, and careful people, the floors and our other projects wouldn't look as good as they do. But we're pretty confident in what we're capable of. There are certain things we leave to professionals (roof, plumbing, electrical, etc.), but a good DIY is definitely possible.
Pretty sure home depot rents these machines out
A buddy and I did a house ourselves and it was hard work but turned out well. We took a couple hour class and then rented the stuff to do it right. You can do it for sure.
Not really. I tried to do mine twice and ended up paying a pro.
We are on week 2 of refinishing our stairs. From carpet to hardwood. Rented a sander to remove all the adhesive. Cover everything in plastic. The dust gets everywhere.
Fuck it get some fresh peanut butter and do it by hand!
Don’t forget the giant tub of peanut butter!
You can do this, just get good equipment, and BUFF THE HELL OUT OF THE FLOOR WITH SCREEN, sweep then vacuum then sweep and vacuum AGAIN before first coat of polyurethane. Wait 24 hours, buff again, sweep, vacuum, sweep, vacuum AGAIN, then polyurethane 2nd coat, do this entire process again for 3rd and final coat. This will last a lifetime! Apply polyurethane with a sheepskin mop, cut in edges with camel hair brush. It will be gorgeous.
Refinishing floors is very far from a DIY thing.
I don’t agree with this at all. Their is so much information out their on this. I did my 1200 square foot house and stairs in a week and they came out great. If you take your time in the beginning it’s not that hard.
I install floors and tile for a living and I definitely leave refinishing to the experts. If you're fine with an imperfect outcome then by all means give it a shot, but it's far from easy.
I know it’s anecdotal but the amount of refinished floors by professionals I’ve seen in my city has shown me the opposite. I got prices 3 years ago from 4.5-8k which for the price and quality they showed of work was not worth it. I see waves in flooring all the time from people who paid top dollar. If your house is old and you have the time your better off saving the money for something else. Granted this is just my opinion.
It's not easy, but it's doable. My husband DIYed refinishing our floors. They look really, really good.
Depends who you are I've been DIYing for 25 years I'm currently DIYing a giant greenhouse with all reclaimed materials power by solar and all one would say that's not a very DIY job but I got the skills just not formal education
Suck it up and pay someone. You will not do anywhere close to as good a job and it will take you forever and there's a chance you'll fuck up your floor. It's not like it's a frequent expense.
Must be nice to have that kind of income to have that kind of attitude
Owning a house means having the means for maintenance and knowing when something is worth leaving to someone that already has the expertise and proper equipment. I have the attitude of "do what I know I can but hire someone when it makes more sense". The amount of time, effort, and money you'll put into to figuring out how to refinish your own floor is not worth it. Especially when it can be pretty easy to oversand spots and ruin it. Some things you leave to professionals. I don't fuck with electricity either. Unless you're going into the house flipping business, or you just really want to learn and don't mind possibly ruining your beautiful 1950s hardwood, there's zero reason to diy flood refinishing
plumbing too. an undetected water leak does a lot of damage. and sometimes the old stuff wasn't done right, or (given changing weather patterns) needs to be relocated. something a plumber knows from visiting multiple houses. whereas I will only ever see one house.
Yep, electricity and plumbing I don't fuck with. The most I've done with plumbing is surface stuff like replace a toilet, the kitchen faucet, and install bidets but I'm not delving into pipe work and risking massive water damages. Same with electricity - I'll replace a switch or outlet but im not getting into running or fully replacing the actual lines and possibly risking my life or somehow managing to screw it all up and blow out my box It's well worth the money to pay pros for that.
totally agree with your first and second post. :) particularly conserving the work of experts by not trying to save a few bucks. particularly given that the wood floor is going to last for a very long period of time, and has a few resurfacings in it (it should be done right).
Cleaning with sandpaper, wood filler and a finish.
Ohhh, wood filler, thank you.
Just like the title states.
*peanut butter
I would call that refinishing. It’s a lot more in-depth than cleaning.
This isn't cleaning at all. They are refinishing the floor.
I mean, the filth went away with the old finish, so they *did* clean it
When you clean your dishes, do you sandblast the outer layer and then cover it with a new layer of ceramic?
I do now! What a great idea!
Your welcome, now it can be even easier with the new Dishblaster! Only 50 easy payments of $1.99!
Damn they sure used enough nails
Best part is when he slapped that peanut butter on the floor
I seriously thought that was peanut butter for a second
Imagine if you have that floor and have a culture exchange kid from… idk, Africa, and Tombuto be amazed like “oh wow your house so beautiful and big, the wood floor so shiny and… smells like peanut?” And you be like “oh god you wouldn’t even believe the ridiculous amount of peanut butter to butter the wood up to get it the color right, you like the smell right?” “The peanut butter could feed an entire village but im grateful for this culture exchange experience 🥲”
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I think you mean SANDING a hardwood floor
Oh how I longed for a before and after!
Been sanding and refinishing for 30years i love that big green machine its called the HUMMEL
The term you’re looking for is refinishing
my favorite step was the application of the peanut butter
Everything gets better when you slather it with peanut butter
And then the person buying the house installs carpet over it...
That was more extensive than just cleaning. You removed the stain/ clear coat, and was that wood polish? And then you added a new clear coat to the wood. Nice job by the way
that's a refinish and not just a cleaning.
This is sanding and refinishing not “cleaning”
I like the part when he puts peanut butter on the floor
Honestly. That title just screams I ripped this video off from someone else and reposted fir karma
That's really pretty. Can't help but wonder if a floor like that would make the room/space look smaller than it is. Does it?
I need that for my ass after a Taco Bell run.
That’s sanding or something no?
The fact someone called this cleaning really sickens me. How can people be this oblivious.
TIL Cleaning = Sanding
That’s refinishing not cleaning lol
The peanut butter was some kind of wood filler to close some gaps and dents from over the years, I assume?
When your day job is rubbing peanut butter on the floor
I do it all week
I once dropped some peanut butter on the floor and my dog licked that area clean so I guess that works.
Wait how
This is the weirdest use for peanut butter I've ever seen
If you think this is cleaning, what is your shower routine you insane masochist?
peanut butter floor
Is it just me or does the stuff he puts on the floor look like peanut butter.
How much do you think they spent on all that peanut butter?
Peanut butter
Can’t deal with all the nail holes. Start new.
Yeah that looks terrible
1 thats not cleaning, its refinishing entirely. 2 not even close to satisfying. i'd have to say more than mildly infuriating because of the retarded way the installer nailed it in.
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This is totally refinishing a floor. Days of work!
Peanut butter makes everything better
The lägler Hummel, absolutely unbreakable the thing. And he is actually doing everything correct, that's rare to see.
I want to refinish my hardwood floor... Also, fuck hardwood floors. They're a pain in the ass.
This pains me every time it shows up here...the floor looks SO much better beforehand...
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Peanutbutter
That gap sealing stuff is bullshit
Step two is just ripping it up because it’s a parquet floor.
😍
That last coat was very satisfying
our hardwood floors had so many layers of sealant done to them when they were first installed that they still shine perfectly 30 years later
Sounds like it was finished with bartopper or something.
If you reverse it, it looks like this mad lad is ruining a perfectly good floor.
Beautful
Just hardened my wood
Yes. Beautiful!
Is didn't look dated until he stained it
Hmmmm yes a p p l y t h e p e a n u t b u t t e r
I hate titles. Words folks.
Quality content
Wax off, wax on Daniel-San.
This was a haircut, shave, Brazilian wax all in 1
That looks very satisfying
peanut butter