How To Finish Reclaimed Wood Floors

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How to finish reclaimed wood floors.

The hardwood grooves and knotholes along with the already worn finish creates personality in flooring that you would be hard pressed to find in a newly honed piece of lumber. Your first goal in maintaining your reclaimed wood floor s appearance is to protect the finish from wear and damage. Regardless of the finish oil based water based etc or the type of flooring hardwood or softwood etc these steps are the same. Make sure not to use too much.

When it comes to pine flooring. Once the wood was dry from its cleaning i used a regular paint brush and sparingly applied the minwax finish. How to finish reclaimed pine flooring. Our reclaimed barn wood floors are one of my favorite things about our house they are the feature of our house that get the most compliments people honestly think we ve refinished the original wood floors and they are surprisingly the aspect of our home i get the most questions on from blog readers and random internet browsers.

I used minwax polycrylic water based protective finish in clear satin you guys this stuff is amazing. The last step to clean and refinish your reclaimed wood is to properly seal the wood. Wood flooring from reclaimed lumber is in a revival period.