Mike wrote:

"JaKe" wrote in message
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Yaofeng wrote:

I'm threatening to refinish my wood floors and want to learn the proper way
to do it.
Why did you use oil based stain and water based PU?

Thanks,

Mike

I did the samething, smaller rooms to work up to the larger ones. The
smaller ones took a weekend whereas the larger room(s) took about 1
week. And yes, we had to live a different life until it was finally
done.

I rented sanders from HD too. The initial sanding took all day. So I
rented the sanders for 24 hours -- it's only like a $10 difference. I
used 30,60,80,100 grit in that order. The edging and filling in the
cracks and staple holes took a lot of time as well.

Vacuumed and used tack cloth before staining twice the entire floor with
an oil base finish. Since the stain the was oil based and the poly was
water base, I had to wait 72 hours before I could poly the floor.

I used a sheep skin fleece applicator and the water base poly. I used 3
cots and sanded with 150 screen on a pole sander in between coats. The
water base poly dried in only 1-2 hours. So the poly was done in only
one day.

Hope this helps.
--
JaKe, Seattle
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If you are reading it in English
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Well, when I did the first smaller rooms I used oil based and the poly
was oil based too. So, I wanted to match the colors since the water
based stains had such a small selection for colors/tints available.
Plus, I've heard that water based stains are so new that their overall
performances has yet to be proven to match the oil based stains.

--
JaKe, Seattle
"If you can read this thank a teacher.
If you are reading it in English
thank a veteran."