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Today my gf and I were at our new house preping for move in. She was painting our daughters room and I was vacuuming and cleaning carpets.
As I was vacuuming in the front room I got a snag from the carpet wound up it the vacuum. It pulled up the corner, so I take a look and the carpet is on top of linoleum which is on top of wood flooring.
We were planning on taking the carpet out anyway and putting down a laminate. I begged my gf to let me pull that carpet and linoleum out today! We aren’t moving in for a week and a half. And I would rather do that job when we aren’t living there.
My question is this, barring a major patch job, could a guy refurbish a 20×12 wood floor working 3-4 hours a day in that time?
It’s sounds pretty reasonable the biggest time sink is sanding. The only thing that sucks is if the flood is varnished the sand paper gets gummed up bad..
You’ll need to rent a flooring sander to have a shot at getting it done in that amount of time, but it is doable. Get a wheel type sander as opposed to a belt type.
Use a water based varnish. It dries a lot quicker.
I did it with a belt floor sander, if you opt for this make sure you keep that baby as flat as possible. Otherwise you’ll have nice little rolling hills throughout your surface.
Thank you all. I think it’s out of the cards for now. We’re supposed to have some crappy weather for the next few days. Gonna be an early fall in the Pacific Northwest.
I think when I get around to it I’m going to go for either the distressed/primitive look, or natural tone. Any opinions?
ETS7345 wrote:
I did it with a belt floor sander, if you opt for this make sure you keep that baby as flat as possible. Otherwise you’ll have nice little rolling hills throughout your surface.
Yep, that’s why I say the belt types are best left to the pro’s.
Then again, you aren’t exactly an amateur 🙂
RedSionnach wrote:
Thank you all. I think it’s out of the cards for now. We’re supposed to have some crappy weather for the next few days. Gonna be an early fall in the Pacific Northwest.
I think when I get around to it I’m going to go for either the distressed/primitive look, or natural tone. Any opinions?
My wife is crazy about primitive style. It does kinda grow on you I suppose.
Conductor562 wrote:
Yep, that’s why I say the belt types are best left to the pro’s.
Then again, you aren’t exactly an amateur 🙂
Thanks for the compliment!
But trust me I’ve made plenty of boo boo’s…
The worst is trying to scrape up the glue that is used on out door carpet……you talk about adhesive!!
ChaseRogers wrote:
The worst is trying to scrape up the glue that is used on out door carpet……you talk about adhesive!!
Tell me about it. I removed some 70’s foam back glue down carpet from the kitchen in my last home. The carpet came up fine. The foam, not so much. I spent close to 8 hours scraping that crap off.
I suppose I’ll have to do the same if the linoleum is well secured.
One of the best thing to remove glue is the special scrapers that go’s on a recip saw it still a pain in the A. But alot faster !
The coolest thing out now is the porcelain tile that looks like a wood floor. I really want to do it in my kitchen but the kitchen really needs a full remodeling.
Cool. I’m gonna have to check out those tiles. For the kitchen or bath.