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sanding and refinishing hardwood floors in entire house Doug1122 08-09-2006
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Posted by Doug1122 on August 9, 2006, 1:12 pm
My house was built sometime in the 50's, and then later wall to wall
carpet was added on top of the hardwood floors. Now that my three kids
have sufficiently ruined the carpet, I plan to pull up all the carpet
and refinish the hardwood. Will there be any significant problems with
doing the different rooms at different times? Otherwise I have to
concern myself with moving all of the furniture out of the house at one
time. My personal feeling is that if I do that, then I might as well
move it into a new house.


Posted by m Ransley on August 9, 2006, 1:55 pm
If you have thresholds inbetween rooms it can be finished so you wont
see a line. Sanding makes alot of dust, something you may not want to
repeat after a few rooms.


Posted by Lawrence on August 9, 2006, 4:23 pm

Doug1122 wrote:
> My house was built sometime in the 50's, and then later wall to wall
> carpet was added on top of the hardwood floors. Now that my three kids
> have sufficiently ruined the carpet, I plan to pull up all the carpet
> and refinish the hardwood. Will there be any significant problems with
> doing the different rooms at different times? Otherwise I have to
> concern myself with moving all of the furniture out of the house at one
> time. My personal feeling is that if I do that, then I might as well
> move it into a new house.

You might consider renting one or more storage lockers for your
belongings and just move completetly out while sanding. Sanding is a
gruesome task and yu don't want to do more than once. Put your family
in a nice hotel and they wont' mind.


Posted by hallerb@aol.com on August 9, 2006, 5:24 pm
you might do one floor at a time. to minimize disruption. depends on
bathrooms etc...

I can remember when wall to wall was DELUXE and sign you were
affluent...

The pendelum has swung, now its hardwood..

Frankly carpewt is warmer quieter and less hassle.

you might get a couple rooms refinished then decide if you want to do
the entire house, it also gives you a place to store belongings from
other rooms.

of course you could cover everything with pre finished fake hardwood,
thats easy to do one room at a time.

you existing floors may not be in the best of shape:(

locally there are contractors who are low dust....havent tried them
myself I like carpet....


Posted by Doug1122 on August 10, 2006, 2:18 am
Personally, I like carpet too. My wife on the other hand wants the
hardwood. So alas...I am going to do it with the minimal expense.


hallerb@aol.com wrote:
> you might do one floor at a time. to minimize disruption. depends on
> bathrooms etc...

> I can remember when wall to wall was DELUXE and sign you were
> affluent...
>
> The pendelum has swung, now its hardwood..
>
> Frankly carpewt is warmer quieter and less hassle.
>
> you might get a couple rooms refinished then decide if you want to do
> the entire house, it also gives you a place to store belongings from
> other rooms.
>
> of course you could cover everything with pre finished fake hardwood,
> thats easy to do one room at a time.
>
> you existing floors may not be in the best of shape:(
>
> locally there are contractors who are low dust....havent tried them
> myself I like carpet....


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