OT finish for pine wood floor?
Friends have just purchased and are going to re-do the pine wood floors and
asked what they should use as a finish. The house is post WWII? and I'm surprised the floors are pine but they are original with the house. Are these floors supposed to be varnished, shellacked, or oiled? Boiled in oil? My guess is that the modern varnishes would be tougher than the pine? But that an oil finish would need very frequent tender loving care. Thanks in advance, Josie -- ---------------------------------- "Once you know, you know" The Unified Field of Know Theory |
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:50:37 -0500, "firstjois"
wrote: Friends have just purchased and are going to re-do the pine wood floors and asked what they should use as a finish. The house is post WWII? and I'm surprised the floors are pine but they are original with the house. Are these floors supposed to be varnished, shellacked, or oiled? Boiled in oil? My guess is that the modern varnishes would be tougher than the pine? But that an oil finish would need very frequent tender loving care. Thanks in advance, Josie My neighbors had pine floors when I was a kid.. they called them their "softwood floors".. I remember helping them sand them down once, and (as a sign painter's son) asked what kind of finish they were putting on the floors... they said "the same as we did 20 years ago, wax"... Personally, I'd at least stain and seal them, but to each his/her own, I guess.. |
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:50:37 -0500, "firstjois"
wrote: Friends have just purchased and are going to re-do the pine wood floors and asked what they should use as a finish. There's only one finish I'd use - an acid-cure formaldehyde resin. Easy to work with, cured and hard in only a few hours, but it stinks like a goat farm while you're working with it (full-face mask). Use 3 coats. I did use wax once. Even in a bedroom it just wasn't hard-wearing enough, even if you power-buff it. -- Smert' spamionam |
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