Seems like every house I work on now has hardwood floors that need work. Yesterday I posted a blog on how Murphy Oil Soap saved the day for me for one room. Today, I'm interested in how to refinish the floors.
The reason behind this is decks. My logic is that refinishing a hard wood floor is not that much different from cleaning up a really bad deck. This deck below, from my last job, had a wheelchair ramp up to the house. This will put 99.9% of buyers off.
The ramp before the handyman attacked it.
We used $50 worth of deck cleaners and brighteners and power washed to get it the best we could. Then we sealed it with Cabot clear.
It really looks good.
I'm thinking that I could have taken a sander for hardwood floors and sanded the deck. That would have meant no chemicals and the look would have been more consistent. The area that had a outdoor rug is lighter than the rest of the deck.
I'm definitely not trying to put the professionals out of work. They would be called in at the drop of a hat for a large deck. A deck of this size would be cost prohibitive on most of the Orchestrating Estate jobs that I do.
Has anyone used a floor sander on a deck?
The local Home Depot has a floor sander that it rents by the hour and day.
Will this work for the decks too!!
I've very curious about this because my son's deck needs to be re-done. We are all do it yourselves :-)
We tried paint strippers and power washers and it still needed to be sanded. The logical thing was for us to try sanding one section before stripping and amazing this worked. We can now skip the process of paint removers and brighteners and just sand. There are many really nice hand sanders on the market and I figure it would take us months of weekends to finish the job.
Will the hardwood floor machine work for this process?
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