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Help! Wood floor refinishing nightmare.

szeik@hotmail.com

2006-10-31, 9:25 am

Hi,

We just had some wood floors refinished upstairs. The job came out ok
but we had a big problem where the water based polyurethane that they
used seeped through the floor and came down into our basement. It got
all over this computer desk and spattered over the monitor and a couple
of printers. Nothing is ruined to the point of not being functional,
but the desk looks like crap and so do the printers.

Nothing I have tried takes this stuff off. I am guessing that anything
that could take it off would also take the finish of the desk off. The
desk is a finished piece of white pine we got from IKEA.

Is there any way to get this stuff off of the desk or the plastic
printers?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

m Ransley

2006-10-31, 9:25 am

Call the company that made the poly, try to remove it before it fully
cures.

JoeSpareBedroom

2006-10-31, 9:25 am

<szeik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1162298057.615751.305370@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> We just had some wood floors refinished upstairs. The job came out ok
> but we had a big problem where the water based polyurethane that they
> used seeped through the floor and came down into our basement. It got
> all over this computer desk and spattered over the monitor and a couple
> of printers. Nothing is ruined to the point of not being functional,
> but the desk looks like crap and so do the printers.
>
> Nothing I have tried takes this stuff off. I am guessing that anything
> that could take it off would also take the finish of the desk off. The
> desk is a finished piece of white pine we got from IKEA.
>
> Is there any way to get this stuff off of the desk or the plastic
> printers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
>

For the plastic surfaces, you might try VERY carefully slipping a razor
blade under the polyurethane spots. In a perfect world, they might come off
in chips.

Art

2006-10-31, 5:25 pm

More proof that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Considering that
it had to go thru cracks between panels in the floor and thru the subfloor,
this is amazing.

<szeik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1162298057.615751.305370@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> We just had some wood floors refinished upstairs. The job came out ok
> but we had a big problem where the water based polyurethane that they
> used seeped through the floor and came down into our basement. It got
> all over this computer desk and spattered over the monitor and a couple
> of printers. Nothing is ruined to the point of not being functional,
> but the desk looks like crap and so do the printers.
>
> Nothing I have tried takes this stuff off. I am guessing that anything
> that could take it off would also take the finish of the desk off. The
> desk is a finished piece of white pine we got from IKEA.
>
> Is there any way to get this stuff off of the desk or the plastic
> printers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
>

JoeSpareBedroom

2006-10-31, 5:25 pm

"Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> More proof that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Considering
> that it had to go thru cracks between panels in the floor and thru the
> subfloor, this is amazing.

Sounds like they applied it with a fire hose.

PaPaPeng

2006-10-31, 5:25 pm

On 31 Oct 2006 04:34:17 -0800, "szeik@hotmail.com" <szeik@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Is there any way to get this stuff off of the desk or the plastic
>printers?

Water soluble
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1. Try alcohol.

2. Try the waterless hand cleaner used for removing grease, used by
gargage mechanics. Its a paste with pumice. I find that an excellent
product for cleaning many things and it leaves a smooth surface too.
Its great for cleaning the "cultured marble" bathroom countertops.

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