How To Blend Refinished Floor Into Oreexisting Floor

When i purchased the house there was carpet in one room and the previous owner had ripped up the carpets in the other rooms and only used an ugly wood stain in their pathetic attempt to refinish.

How to blend refinished floor into oreexisting floor.

Just take a tape measure and measure the current width of your wood. I refinished the floors in my house built in 1940 s and originally hardwood floors. A new hardwood floor can dramatically increase the value of your home but connecting an existing floor with a new one may pose problems. Use a roller and roll on the stain as if it were paint.

Using a good quality polyurethane and a china bristle brush and three differ. If the floor you have has an oil based finish i recommend using a hardwax oil if your floor is lacquer based i recommend using a polyurethane lacquer not acrylic or part acrylic. The standard sizes for solid oak flooring is 2 1 4 3 1 4 4 and 5. This is generally the simplest to figure out.

I never wanted to write this post. Thickness color and layout variations disrupt what should. Never use wax oil soaps or other coatings on your polyurethane floor. Sand off the finish then stain the entire floor the color of your choice.

Most westchester houses especially those built before 2000 have the standard 2 1 4 strips. In my experience it is almost impossible to refinish a section of floor that will blend in with the finished section in the same room that is. I have this issue several places int he house where one room needs a new coat of polyurethane and the other does not. As you can see in the photo whoever did the floor previously didn t know either.

While the finish is still wet blend in any brush marks with a lamb s wool or foam applicator. Some old damaged floors may need so much work that it s wise to look into floor replacement as an alternative. Seal the floor with a polyurethane finish. Test for this by applying stain to an area that will not be visible once furniture is moved back into place.

Lightly abrade sand the surface of your floor. This is how to polyurethane a spot on the floor with that refinishing the floor. Since coating the floor with polyurethane occasionally is expected you must always be careful never to apply anything that will interfere with a future touchup of the finish. Some of the doorways between rooms are double wide so i d rather not add a threshold strip if there is away to nicely transition the refinishing.

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