My house has wide plank pine floors. The floor boards vary in width from
around a foot to maybe two feet. Recently I decided to fix up the
bathroom floor. I removed two layers of bad old tile flooring to get
down to the original pine floor in the bathroom. This is a bathroom of
around 10" by 20" (originally not a bathroom since the house was built
in 1820 before homes had bathrooms).

I have sanded the floor down in the room and my plan is to coat it with
polyurethane. This bathroom has a sink, toilet and tub/shower. My
question is, is polyurethane over a pine floor acceptable in a bathroom?
Does anyone out there have a wood floor in a bathroom and does a coating
like this protect it enough from the potential water damage to the floor?

Does anyone out there have a wood floor in a bathroom

It's the "in" thing these days.
Pat

Waterbased polyurethanes have very little odor and dry rapidly, better
for indoor applications than oil based products. One of the finish
makers suggests Bonakemi, or a name similar to that, for floor
applications. Others that have used it rave about it. It would be
what I'd look for.

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:18:36 GMT, Rob Gray wrote:

My house has wide plank pine floors. The floor boards vary in width from
around a foot to maybe two feet. Recently I decided to fix up the
bathroom floor. I removed two layers of bad old tile flooring to get
down to the original pine floor in the bathroom. This is a bathroom of
around 10" by 20" (originally not a bathroom since the house was built
in 1820 before homes had bathrooms).

I have sanded the floor down in the room and my plan is to coat it with
polyurethane. This bathroom has a sink, toilet and tub/shower. My
question is, is polyurethane over a pine floor acceptable in a bathroom?
Does anyone out there have a wood floor in a bathroom and does a coating
like this protect it enough from the potential water damage to the floor?

Rob Gray wrote in message ...
My house has wide plank pine floors. The floor boards vary in width from
around a foot to maybe two feet. Recently I decided to fix up the
bathroom floor. I removed two layers of bad old tile flooring to get
down to the original pine floor in the bathroom. This is a bathroom of
around 10" by 20" (originally not a bathroom since the house was built
in 1820 before homes had bathrooms).

I have sanded the floor down in the room and my plan is to coat it with
polyurethane. This bathroom has a sink, toilet and tub/shower. My
question is, is polyurethane over a pine floor acceptable in a bathroom?
Does anyone out there have a wood floor in a bathroom and does a coating
like this protect it enough from the potential water damage to the floor?

We first finished two bathroom floors and a kitchen floor as you describe in 1979.
We refinished one bathroom in 1990.
The kitchen floor has been refinished twice since the original finish.

Tom Baker

We put down tongue and groove pine flooring in both our bathrooms, the
oldest installation about 6 years ago. The wood was stained and given two
coats of a water based urethane finish. We have had no problems with
moisture, spills or "near misses." Urethane is incredible stuff.

"Rob Gray" wrote in message
...
My house has wide plank pine floors. The floor boards vary in width from
around a foot to maybe two feet. Recently I decided to fix up the
bathroom floor. I removed two layers of bad old tile flooring to get
down to the original pine floor in the bathroom. This is a bathroom of
around 10" by 20" (originally not a bathroom since the house was built
in 1820 before homes had bathrooms).

I have sanded the floor down in the room and my plan is to coat it with
polyurethane. This bathroom has a sink, toilet and tub/shower. My
question is, is polyurethane over a pine floor acceptable in a bathroom?
Does anyone out there have a wood floor in a bathroom and does a coating
like this protect it enough from the potential water damage to the floor?

We have the probably original wide plank floors on our parlor floor bath
(townhouse from around 1850), coated with three coats of poly in 1986.
Doing fine. The tub and shower in this bathroom hardly gets used however.
On our bedroom floor, the bathroom has newer (1920's?) narrow maple tongue
and groove. Also polyed in 1986. It's doing fine too, but we take care to
wipe up all the drips. We tiled the two bathrooms in our tenant's
apartment, however, as we could take the chance that tenant would protect a
wood floor in a bathroom. As long as you take reasonable care, you should
be fine.
--
Peace,
BobJ

"Dick Smyth" wrote in message
...
We put down tongue and groove pine flooring in both our bathrooms, the
oldest installation about 6 years ago. The wood was stained and given two
coats of a water based urethane finish. We have had no problems with
moisture, spills or "near misses." Urethane is incredible stuff.

"Rob Gray" wrote in message
...
My house has wide plank pine floors. The floor boards vary in width from
around a foot to maybe two feet. Recently I decided to fix up the
bathroom floor. I removed two layers of bad old tile flooring to get
down to the original pine floor in the bathroom. This is a bathroom of
around 10" by 20" (originally not a bathroom since the house was built
in 1820 before homes had bathrooms).

I have sanded the floor down in the room and my plan is to coat it with
polyurethane. This bathroom has a sink, toilet and tub/shower. My
question is, is polyurethane over a pine floor acceptable in a bathroom?
Does anyone out there have a wood floor in a bathroom and does a coating
like this protect it enough from the potential water damage to the
floor?