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Sanding Parquet floors?
Awl --
First, some examples: http://parquetfloorinstallation.com/...loor_Tiles.jpg nice http://www.brownstoner.com/brownston...ors-010708.jpg not uncommon in WWII Manhattan apts, brownstones. http://www.parquetflooring.com/P15-Parquet.htm wild -- eat your heart out. Man, I'd be afraid to walk on this.. Here's the Q: If sanding is supposed to be with the grain, how does one sand parquet floors? I'm guessing that instead of a drum sander, mebbe they use one of those big jitter-bug-type sanders that HD used to rent. -- EA |
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On Mar 23, 4:30*pm, "Existential Angst"
wrote: Awl -- First, some examples: http://parquetfloorinstallation.com/...Tiles.jpg*nice http://www.brownstoner.com/brownston...-floors-010708... not uncommon in WWII Manhattan apts, brownstones. http://www.parquetflooring.com/P15-Parquet.htm* wild -- eat your heart out. Man, I'd be afraid to walk on this.. Here's the Q: If sanding is supposed to be with the grain, how does one sand parquet floors? I'm guessing that instead of a drum sander, mebbe they use one of those big jitter-bug-type sanders that HD used to rent. -- EA The most important thing when sanding parquet floors is to keep the drum sander moving. Stop for a second and you will get a massive gouge in the floor, impossible to remove. Drum sanders are the worst for this. You can get belt sanders (ie two drums and a "tank track" sort of belt like the small power tool type. These don't gouge the same but are awkwarder to use. Needless to say, you start with coarse sandpaper & then with finer grades. The real problem is round the edges where the machine can't reach. This takes forever with a small belt sander & by hand. |
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"DerbyDad03" wrote in message ... On Mar 23, 12:30 pm, "Existential Angst" wrote: Awl -- First, some examples: http://parquetfloorinstallation.com/...loor_Tiles.jpg nice http://www.brownstoner.com/brownston...-floors-010708... not uncommon in WWII Manhattan apts, brownstones. http://www.parquetflooring.com/P15-Parquet.htm wild -- eat your heart out. Man, I'd be afraid to walk on this.. Here's the Q: If sanding is supposed to be with the grain, how does one sand parquet floors? I'm guessing that instead of a drum sander, mebbe they use one of those big jitter-bug-type sanders that HD used to rent. -- EA For this one you need a special bent-belt sander... http://www.parquetflooring.com/P04-Parquet.htm Beautiful. -- Nonny Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself.' -Mark Twain .. |
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EA,
I refinished my 30-year old, red oak parquet, entry way a couple of years ago after the dog died. It was only worn on the traffic patterns and in great shape elsewhere. I did the 12-year old, 3/4" oak floors (which I installed) in the family room and kitchen at the same time. I rented one of the big (12" x 18") orbital sanders, figuring a drum sander was overkill. I've used drum sanders before and they are very powerful. The parquet isn't as thick as the regular oak, so I wanted to be careful. Even with the biggest grit the orbital sander couldn't "cut the mustard" on the parquet or on the worst parts of the 3/4" oak. I ended up using a regular belt sander on most of the parquet to take the factory finish off. It's a fairly small entry way with a couple of closets, so it wasn't a big deal. In hindsight, I should have used the big drum sander. The grain issue doesn't seem to matter with parquet. After four coats of gloss, oil-based polyurethane the floors look great. They should outlast me. The kitchen floor does have more "character" to it than the others, but that's a tough environment for wood. Don't bother with the water-based finishes, they don't seem to last as long as oil. dss |
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... EA, I refinished my 30-year old, red oak parquet, entry way a couple of years ago after the dog died. It was only worn on the traffic patterns and in great shape elsewhere. I did the 12-year old, 3/4" oak floors (which I installed) in the family room and kitchen at the same time. I rented one of the big (12" x 18") orbital sanders, figuring a drum sander was overkill. I've used drum sanders before and they are very powerful. The parquet isn't as thick as the regular oak, so I wanted to be careful. Even with the biggest grit the orbital sander couldn't "cut the mustard" on the parquet or on the worst parts of the 3/4" oak. I ended up using a regular belt sander on most of the parquet to take the factory finish off. It's a fairly small entry way with a couple of closets, so it wasn't a big deal. In hindsight, I should have used the big drum sander. The grain issue doesn't seem to matter with parquet. After four coats of gloss, oil-based polyurethane the floors look great. They should outlast me. The kitchen floor does have more "character" to it than the others, but that's a tough environment for wood. Don't bother with the water-based finishes, they don't seem to last as long as oil. Oil probably is tougher, but it also tends to darken the wood, often with a very nice effect, so it's not at all a bad thing, unless you want to keep the wood as light as possible -- which was my situation. If staining the wood, you would also want to check how the oil poly affects that, as well. You can get waterbase polyurethanes with a catalyst/hardener, which supposedly gives a bowling alley type hardness. Seems to have held up by me, but I have no real reference points. Probably you have to use more coats of water based than oil, for the same thickness of coat, mebbe 2 to 1, but I'm certainly no expert. If you have enough coats of poly down, mebbe then you can get by with one of those big orbitals, with a fine grit, to just take off the top couple of layers of poly, and re-apply a fresh coat or two, every 5 years or so. These should go quick, with a good poly. Mebbe those big orbital jitterbugs are more for softer pine floors, ito of the wood itself. Seems like a good idea, if they worked..... Btw, I have acheived interesting effects mixing stain with poly, or even staining over poly, but not on wear surfaces like a floor. It's possible that stain could interfere with a urethane's wear-ability. The advantage to mixing stains with or over poly is that it doesn't soak into the wood, making it easier to sand off/remove. It also doesn't darken as much, and seems to have a more "vibrant" effect. -- EA dss |
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