How often can I refinish my floors? Depending on a floor's thickness and the experience of the flooring professional, a floor can be sanded around 4-6 times in its entire life. Hardwood floors can be refinished every 7-10 years, making the 4-6 refinishes more than enough.
Generally, we recommend recoating every three to ten years, sometimes even longer depending on the foot traffic in your home.
Check for warped boards, low spots, ugly gaps, bad stains or squeaky spots indicating loose boards. You may have to get a contractor to replace some wood for the floor to look good again.
Hardwood flooring can last a lifetime, but the glossy shine of original wood flooring will fade over the course of its life. You'll notice fading after about 25 years. Hardwood floors, if installed properly, can last 100 years.
Generally speaking, it is almost always less expensive to refinish your hardwood floors than to replace them. That's because replacing them involves paying for additional wood, the installation itself, as well as labor costs for tearing up and hauling away the existing hardwood.
In general, it will almost ALWAYS be less expensive to refinish your hardwood floors. If you replace them, you need to pay for additional wood as well as ripping up and hauling away existing hardwood.
The flooring association recommends sweeping or dust-mopping every day and vacuuming once a week with a hard-floor attachment. But the best cleaning tool and how often you use it really depends on how much traffic there is and how you like to clean.
Now that your floors are clean and dry, applying a coat of polish is a great way to revive your hardwood floor's finish. A coat of hardwood floor polish can even out a floor's look, filling in any micro scratches and adding a new protective layer on top of your floor.
"Refinishing a wood floor is cheaper than putting in nice $50-$60-a-yard carpeting," Lessick says. Besides, a properly maintained wood floor can go 20 or 30 years or more before needing to be refinished, says Lupresto. And it can be sanded and refinished "easily six or seven times" over its lifetime, he says.
You'll get the best results if you completely remove your furniture from the space until the work is complete. If you don't have room to accommodate your furniture during refinishing, you'll need to move out of the house until the job is done.
We recommend waiting 6 hours before walking on your new floors in socks. After 24 hours you can walk through with shoes on. Allow 48 hours before setting furniture and returning pets. Carpets and area rugs can be placed after 1 full week.
Aged hardwood floors can be resurfaced or refinished to restore their shine and luster. Resurfacing is a good option if your hardwood floors are severely damaged or outdated, while refinishing is best for minor wear and tear. Hardwood flooring is a popular choice for both resurfacing and refinishing.
While sanding and cutting the boards to size usually comprise the worst of the mess, applying stain and finish can be dirty business as well. Just as with painting, it's important to protect any surfaces directly adjacent to the floor so the stain and finish don't get on them.
Most solid hardwood planks are thick enough to be refinished up to ten times. Refinishing is essential to caring for your solid hardwood and helps it last longer. However, while solid wood can take multiple refinishing over the decades, we can only refinish engineered hardwood once or twice.
With wood floors, it's not enough to just sweep and vacuum. Even more important is to treat your floors using a proper cleaning product, such as Murphy® Oil Soap, which gently cleans finished wood without leaving any residue behind and keeps them looking like new with proper maintenance.
New and improved Swiffer WetJet mopping pads have a new Absorb + Lock strip that helps trap dirt and grime deep in pad so it doesn't get pushed around and is safe on finished wood floors.
Do not wet mop wood flooring. Damp is good. Dripping wet is bad. If you can ring out the mop or pad, you're working with too much water.
Bona is safe for all unwaxed, unoiled, polyurethane-finished wood floors. It's a water-based, pet-safe, pH-neutral formula. It doesn't leave a residue and dries in about a minute and a half.
Avoid Using a Steam Mop on Wood
Some steam mop manufacturers, such as Shark and Bissell, may say you can use it on a sealed hardwood floor, but Stocki recommends against it because moisture could still possibly force itself into the joints between the boards and get into the wood and warp it.
Aside from hiring a professional to do the job, you can try to refinish the hardwood by using a store-bought abrasion kit, recoating it with a polyurethane solution, or applying a revitalizer. For better DIY refinishing project results, proper floor cleaning is an important step to make the coating stick better.
For WOCA applications, projects up to 1,500 sq ft will take 2-3 days, and add one extra day for every additional 1,000 sq ft. Rubio requires an 80-grit sand, which is normal for all sanding procedures. Rubio necessitates only one coat, and wood treated with Rubio will not take more than one coat of the product.
Laminate is inexpensive, yes, but keep in mind you'll have to replace your laminate several times over while your refinished hardwoods will remain in good shape for years to come. It's almost unrecognizable. Costly upgrades are not your friend.