How to Refinish Hardwood Floors
How to Refinish Hardwood Floors
Watch how to refinish hardwood floors instead of having to replace them. Find the detailed instructions on sanding and refinishing hardwood flooring, here: http://low.es/1JTDy4l
Difficulty Level: Moderate. If you are not 100% confident refinishing flooring, Lowe’s recommends that you hire a professional. Call 1-877-GO-LOWES or visit https://low.es/2C1mABH to learn more about installation services through Lowe’s.
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Do I have to clean my floors before I sand?
Cheers
Looks like too much work for me. I think I will just hire somebody.
"Dont want any bubbles"… dont use minwax then
cheaper if you just put new floor
I agree this should not be done by an amatuer DIYer. If you have a small sq ft to do it maybe, but many homes are going to have at least 2,000 sq ft of wood flooring and you risk damaging your floors if you make a mistake
This is hard to watch for any professional floor refinisher smh
Looks worse than before
Do they have the vinyl in ceramic tiles?
320 grit lol bro no
for DIY’s, it aint a weekend project! but like ours, Oak floors, tis worth it.
Instead of wasting your time and money on extremely out dating equipment and out dated sanding techniques just call a professional. When you finally call a flooring contractor don’t expect to be reimbursed for the money that you’ve already wasted.
And then call someone to do this.
As expected from Lowe’s vids. Very helpful. Thank you ♥️
They didn’t fill the floors very well🙄 I do this professionally and I wouldn’t of got paid for work like this
this is ALOT of work, and takes an actual hired team days to do…..
I can’t imagine trying to do this myself, do not attempt please.
Don’t use this video actually refinishing hardwood floors is difficult if you’re not a professional you’re not gonna do it right
Good luck staining that LOL
Cheaper to hire a pro either way. Take my word.
I was looking for full musicals and have now watched three vids on hardwood maintenance. I don’t even own a house.
Look at all the color left behind. People, never use any type of buffing machine to refinish floors. These floors would look terrible with a stain. And you have to get all of the old finish up.
This video addressed almost everything. Only thing is the gap between boards. Even after the finish you see them in the video.
If you are going to stain prior to applying Poly, make sure you use the right Poly. Oil stain w/ Oil Poly.. Water stain w/ Water based poly. If you use Oil Based stain and want to apply water based poly, you’ll need to make sure the stain is thoroughly dry, you;ll need to lightly sand the final coat of stain and then apply mineral spirits to take off any remaining tackiness. Then you might be able to apply the water based poly over the oil based stain..
I’m thinking about doing this myself to save money but much do you think it would cost for a professional flooring company to do this with new floor color of a 2,000 sq home😬.
I have blindfish hardwood floors that have holes around the edges from carpet being pulled off. I’d LOVE to get rid of those! There are about a thousand of them!
Very informative vid. Thanks for sharing Lowe’s.
Can we also change color of the bamboo floor
this is def not DYI. not one bit. omg.
I’ll save everyone some time. Replace your floors.
I wasn’t sure how this would go. To be honest I thought this was going to be a back breaker, not even close. This was my first floor and it turned out nearly perfect. I only did one room aprox, 275sqf and took less than 16 hrs from demo to finish and baseboards, even stained the floor, it was manageable. If I do the whole house I will for sure hire someone, but one room is easy and it was under $300. This was easier than laying tile. If you like doing projects, I say give it a go. If you don’t have experience with power tools, working with your hands, or just lazy, please don’t try this, pay someone.
We have a slightly cupped floor. We leave the windows open in the summer. If we sand and refinish the floor will it crown come winter when the humidity goes away?
Sooooo……..who am I gonna pay to do this????
Those who have done this, what would you rate the difficulty out of 10? I really want to refinish mine but don’t want to mess it up!
Seems like sooo much work!
Good DIY project for professionals. Lol 😂 where am I getting all these equipments from?
This made me sick
White people are funny
Good video, easy to understand and what tools and time needed for good refinishing. Thanks.
Sucks
Lol using that clarke 12×18 obs sander (I know because I have the same machine), you are basically giving a "buff n coat", not sanding down to the bare wood, and I really like how..at the end, the camera angle is down to the floor so that you don’t have a good look at the floor LOL, trust me…if they showed that floor from a standing position LOL…this video would be ALL thumbs down, creativity at its best by the editor of this video, I could pick this video apart lol
So much work, but dang such a great result. Our poor floors need this desperately.
Best DIY project. Everyone who says this is extremely difficult is most likely just lazy people. If you love creating a home and seeing a beautiful result you wont have a problem with this project. All depends on what type of person you are.
Wayyy too much work
Disgusting
Does Lowe’s have someone to do this?
"and job will only cost $2500 dollars, have fun!"
More effective to use a 6mm lint free roller.
Damn lots of sanding
I didn’t think of the small handheld sander for edges and corners. Thanks for the free tip!
Correction of This Video – If using a true random orbital sander, it would be very unlikely to damage the floor (in spite of what the narrator says in this video). A rotary sander would be a different matter, but the whole point of a random orbital sander is to allow even an amateur to sand a hardwood floor without damaging it. It would be difficult to even purposefully damage a hardwood floor when using a random orbital sander.