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Posted by ng_reader on August 15, 2005, 5:20 pm
Well,
I finally went and sanded inside the closet of my 40+ year old home to
refinish my solid oak floors. It's a red oak, pretty thin - I think 3/8" ,
and it is in a lot of home around here, I believe.
Here is SE Pennsylvania.
It looks pretty bad. First of all the floor boards were all top nailed, so
when I sanded down, and then urethaned, the nail holes became quite black.
It's the closet, so no one will see, but I'll need a better solution for the
rest of the floor.
I have two choices, I reckon. Either I sand down and use a stain & varnish
all in one, or I just buff out.
If I stain first, it will have to be dark, so that the nail holes, and any
other cracks aren't as noticeable.
If I buff out, I guess that *would* be easier, but -- I don't own a
buffer.....
Just a little disappointed in the finished look.
Does anyone know what I could do to make it look better? Go over all the
nail heads with some wood putty? Rub some kind of glaze on top before
urethane?
Thanks for listening...
mr. curious
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Posted by Fred on August 15, 2005, 2:31 pm
> Well,
>
> I finally went and sanded inside the closet of my 40+ year old home to
> refinish my solid oak floors. It's a red oak, pretty thin - I think 3/8"
> ,
> and it is in a lot of home around here, I believe.
>
> Here is SE Pennsylvania.
>
> It looks pretty bad. First of all the floor boards were all top nailed, so
> when I sanded down, and then urethaned, the nail holes became quite black.
> It's the closet, so no one will see, but I'll need a better solution for
> the
> rest of the floor.
>
> I have two choices, I reckon. Either I sand down and use a stain & varnish
> all in one, or I just buff out.
>
> If I stain first, it will have to be dark, so that the nail holes, and any
> other cracks aren't as noticeable.
>
> If I buff out, I guess that *would* be easier, but -- I don't own a
> buffer.....
>
> Just a little disappointed in the finished look.
>
> Does anyone know what I could do to make it look better? Go over all the
> nail heads with some wood putty? Rub some kind of glaze on top before
> urethane?
>
> Thanks for listening...
>
> mr. curious
>
>
>
I have the same type of flooring in one of the houses. Its actually between
3/16" to 1/4". I've seen my neighbor finished his and it looks like crap
where you see all those little black holes and doesn't go with his high end
kitchen. I'm not saying it couldn't be done to make look new but I rather
just put in a nice laminate flooring over it and be done with it.
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Posted by ng_reader on August 15, 2005, 5:52 pm
<snip>
> kitchen. I'm not saying it couldn't be done to make look new but I rather
> just put in a nice laminate flooring over it and be done with it.
>
Of course laying another floor is a possibility as well. I'd have to rip off
the molding, and then worry about floor levels, but dollars and cents
probably not much different.
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Posted by Fred on August 16, 2005, 8:55 am
> <snip>
>> kitchen. I'm not saying it couldn't be done to make look new but I rather
>> just put in a nice laminate flooring over it and be done with it.
>>
> Of course laying another floor is a possibility as well. I'd have to rip
> off
> the molding, and then worry about floor levels, but dollars and cents
> probably not much different.
>
>
Rip off molding is no big deal - I'm on my third house. Level the floor you
need to do regardless, don't you? In my area, refinishing is much cheaper
than a new floor - new floor cost about 3x or you could go much, much more.
I went with laminate and install it myself for a little more than a
contractor charge me for refinishing. I could refinishing it myself as well
but it would take longer than laying a laminate and doesn't look as well as
its done by a pro.
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Posted by Todd H. on August 15, 2005, 5:15 pm
> Well,
>
> I finally went and sanded inside the closet of my 40+ year old home to
> refinish my solid oak floors. It's a red oak, pretty thin - I think 3/8" ,
> and it is in a lot of home around here, I believe.
>
> Here is SE Pennsylvania.
>
> It looks pretty bad. First of all the floor boards were all top nailed, so
> when I sanded down, and then urethaned, the nail holes became quite black.
> It's the closet, so no one will see, but I'll need a better solution for the
> rest of the floor.
>
> I have two choices, I reckon. Either I sand down and use a stain & varnish
> all in one, or I just buff out.
>
> If I stain first, it will have to be dark, so that the nail holes, and any
> other cracks aren't as noticeable.
>
> If I buff out, I guess that *would* be easier, but -- I don't own a
> buffer.....
>
> Just a little disappointed in the finished look.
>
> Does anyone know what I could do to make it look better? Go over all the
> nail heads with some wood putty? Rub some kind of glaze on top before
> urethane?
If you have enough thickness left on the floors, I'd fill nail holes
with red oak filler, sand again, stain (even with minwax "natural"
color stain--it is SO worth it on oak because the grain of oak is so
wonderful. IMO, just poly-ing oak without stain is a tremendous
disservice to the wood's look), and then your 3 coats of preferably
oil-based polyurethane with a fine sand in between each. If you are
short on time and want lower odor, and still want a rugged finish, try
Street Shoe brand stuff--very tough, but pricey.
http://www.goldenstateflooring.com/finishes.php/basiccoatings/0/streetshoe
Good luck!
Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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