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belt sander for wood flooring edge
Hi everyone,
I live in a ranch built in the late 50's. It has 2 piece molding through-out, a base piece and shoe molding in front. I had my floors refinished several years ago. It is the natural color of the wood with a clear polyurethane coating. I am repainting one of my sons rooms and would like to replace the molding with one piece that would be typically 1/2 inch thick. Needless to say there would be approximately 5/8 inch of unfinished floor now exposed with the new molding. I do not want to use quarter round to cover it. I have been trying to use a palm sander to bring the sections by the wall down to match. I have gotten halfway decent results after applying some polyurethane but can still see a line. If used with a delicate touch would a belt sander be the way to go? (I would rather own a belt sander than rent a edge finisher). Thanks, Mark |
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Maybe I need to clarify. I have sanded past that 5/8" that was under
the molding onto the finished floor so that the finish has been taken off the finished area. Applying polyurethane on that area that had the finish taken off resulted in a completely seamless transition. You could not tell that anything had been done to the floor. The problem is the area underneath the molding that is still ever so slightly higher and darker than the rest of the flooring and needs to be brought down. I am confident that if I can just do a better job on sanding that 5/8" it will look much better. So about the belt sander idea... |
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A belt sander is very good at taking off material. There are more than
one factor involved. How hard is your floor material? What number of the sanding belt is used? The accessibility of the work area (some belt sander has shape that allows it to get close only on one side) In general, I'd venture to say unless your floor hight difference is more than 1/16" or you better have very steady hands. After the belt sander it will take many pass of finishing sander to get rid off all the marks left by the belt sander. FC |
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