How To Grind Wooden Floor

There are more ways to ruin a hardwood floor than there are to sand it properly.

How to grind wooden floor.

Remove the existing flooring. 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. Instead of scratching away at the wood fibers the belt will rip them out. 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.

Watch to keep the scraper level not angled and not. If the floor sanding is good you will use either oil or water based polyurethane liquid to paint the floors. An educational video for public use. Similar to how you can grind down a wooden floor you will need to do the same thing for concrete warping.

Sand with the grain. Determine how much flooring and materials will be needed. A 4 inch or 8 inch angle grinder can be used with a cup wheel. If you have a vinyl floor you may be able to install your flooring directly on top of it.

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. The first commandment of sanding. Lot of it is hallway with a ton of corners.

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. About half the floors we will be sanding is a regular hardwood floor and the tiles and herringbone are about evenly over the other half. If you re replacing an old floor with a new one your first task will be to get rid of the outdated flooring material. Hardwood floor sanding is a skilled job that takes practice and experience.

Regular wood floor upkeep must avoid expensive wooden floor grinding. It s incredibly fast and dangerous.