Refinishing Yellow Pine Floors
We decided that we wanted to keep oir 100 uear old pine flooring in our new home.
Refinishing yellow pine floors. But it s also a project you may want to leave to professionals. Apply a coat of bona traffic hd the same way you did the others edging and rolling with a new 10 mm roller making sure you don t leave any pooling or striping. And it definitely took that long for us. Refinishing pine floors is no different than oak but antique oak you need a floor sander buffer and the finish of your choice.
Refinishing hardwood pine floors often sounds like more work than most people want to do but it can be done by most do it yourselfers if you plan and prepare correctly. Apply 2 coats of bona traffic hd. Most pine flooring and pine steps can be sanded and refinished. Education will help you make the decision and proceed on either path.
Sand with the utmost care. Once the oil cured the floor felt a little warmer but the color stayed close to the natural color of the original unfinished pine. It was a labor of love and tons of work. Depending on the floor you will need several different grades of sandpaper to reach the smooth surface desired.
Sand again if that s what you re doing and vacuum and wipe with a damp cloth. Occasionally i have seen floors that have been refinished so many times and it s time to replace them but this the exception to the rule perhaps this occurs in 5 of floors. Allow to dry 3 hours. This assumes that the pine is solid and thick enough stable enough.
The polyurethane really brought out the vibrance of the wood grain and blended in the areas that had been patched with a different wood species over the years. After the stain had fully dried we applied minxwax super fast drying polyurethane for floors in a satin finish using a lambswool applicator for a super smooth finish. We could have done one coat to keep it lighter but our pine floors had lots of variation and then second coat really helped to even out the different tones. One of the most important things to remember when sanding a pine floor is to keep the sander moving.
This is very much a process in and of itself as opposed to a step or task in a process. Refinishing pine floors requires removing the old one.