How To Grind Wood Floor

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How to grind wood floor.

Use a long level and tape measure to check that the floor is level. Hand tapes or disk grinders for parquet are used along the walls. Sand with the grain. The result is a fresh new looking wood floor.

We call this process rough cutting. Hardwood flooring for the cycle a belt type grinder with an abrasive pad no. An educational video for public use. Instead of scratching away at the wood fibers the belt will rip them out.

We ll stop supporting this browser soon. This video is about how to grind hardwood mulch wood. 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. Typically the floor must be level and uniform within 3 16 inch every 10 feet.

Do not use hand grinders to process the entire floor area. It s incredibly fast and dangerous. With the help of this machine the main floor area is parsed with an indentation from the wall of about 10 cm. Check your wood flooring manufacturer s recommendations and sand any high spots with a concrete grinder.

On older floors the first step when sanding is to choose an aggressive grit like 24 grit per square inch to level the boards one to another and remove imperfections if possible. The first commandment of sanding.