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Posted by Kiwanda on September 26, 2006, 1:53 pm
Todd H. wrote:
>
> > Hello - I just bought a new house (new to me) and want to get the hard
> > wood floors redone in them. They are in decent shape, but in the high
> > traffic areas, the polyurethane has worn off and you can pretty much
> > see the dull wood. My house is about a 1000 square feet and I need
> > about 800 sq. feet refinished. I have Red Oak 3/4" thick by 2 1/4" wide
> > planks.
>
> I did mine myself, once. Once.
>
> I wouldn't do it again as it was a complete labor intensive pain in
> the ass. But I sorta knew that going in and felt it was something I
> needed to try once. Once. :-)
I did three rooms in our house about two years ago and would happily do
it again if needed. These rooms required much more than refinishing;
two had multiple layers of carpet glued/stapled to them, and one
hallway had vinyl glued down. The floors were laid in 1958 and not
badly worn, but getting all that glue up caused some damage. Not
counting the removal work, it took basically one full day to strip and
sand all the floors down to bare, smooth wood, and another day
(intermittant) to put down three coats of water-based poly. They look
great and the whole project cost me about $100, for perhaps 400 sq feet
of red oak. I didn't bother to get a bid on it so don't know what it
would have cost locally.
For the $2,300 the OP was quoted I could install AND finish entirely
new oak floors in most of my house.
-kiwanda
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