How To Grind Wooden Floor

Remove any carpet or other flooring.

How to grind wooden floor. It s incredibly fast and dangerous. Determine how much flooring and materials will be needed. Lot of it is hallway with a ton of corners. Sand with the grain.

Remove the existing flooring. There are more ways to ruin a hardwood floor than there are to sand it properly. Similar to how you can grind down a wooden floor you will need to do the same thing for concrete warping. If you re replacing an old floor with a new one your first task will be to get rid of the outdated flooring material.

Small humps and dips can be ground out of a concrete floor with a sander or a grinder but if you have larger humps in a concrete floor the best option is a concrete grinder. Watch to keep the scraper level not angled and not. Hardwood floor sanding is a skilled job that takes practice and experience. But when you have a lot of wood to grind off break that rule and run your belt sander diagonally across the grain at about 45 degrees.

Multiply length times width of the room. Regular wood floor upkeep must avoid expensive wooden floor grinding. Or you can flip your edge sander over turn it on with 100 grit sand paper on and gently grind the scraper to produce a sharp edge. Instead of scratching away at the wood fibers the belt will rip them out.

A 4 inch or 8 inch angle grinder can be used with a cup wheel. An educational video for public use. Add about 10 to that number to account for any possible mistakes and warped boards. The first commandment of sanding.

If the floor sanding is good you will use either oil or water based polyurethane liquid to paint the floors. Use a pry bar to pull up hardwood floors one section at a time or unfasten carpet or laminate and roll it up from one end.