Step 6 dip a sponge mop into the bucket and completely coat it with the cleaning material.
How to finish prefinished hardwood flooring.
Pour bruce fresh finish into a 5 gallon bucket.
A prefinished plank floor over 4 is a poorly designed product and i ve been hearing all winter of these amazing shrinking floors.
Go to the plank floor section of the hardwood authority and you ll soon realize that you cannot screw and peg a prefinished floor.
The finish applied to the flooring at the factory is completely different than the finish applied on site.
If the flooring is engineered hardwood the answer is usually no the same equipment and process is used to refinish both site finished and pre finished wood although sanding pre finished wood is bit more challenging and take a bit longer see video towards the end of this article.
This flooring material is generally nailed down to the subfloor with finishing nails or staples driven at an angle along the tongues or the edges of the planks.
Installation of prefinished solid hardwood flooring planks is similar to that for unfinished hardwood which means it requires special tools such as a power floor nailer or pneumatic stapler.
Bruce fresh finish is a urethane dressing designed to restore bruce hardwood floors that have been scratched or worn down by high traffic.
This last method may not work well if the floor is a waxed prefinished product you didn t say.
Factory finish is usually 7 10 coats of an aluminum oxide finish.
Solid pre finished hardwood flooring lasts longer than unfinished flooring and here s why.
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Once all the old finish is off you may be able to smooth the floor with an orbital floor sander article on this in the case in point section and finish it with 3 4 coats of omp.
The answer is generally yes as long as the pre finished or site finished floors are solid hardwood.