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How to refinish old floors
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| HotRod 2006-05-31, 11:21 am |
| I have some very old, 100+ years, cedar floors in my house and decided that
I'd refinish all of them. I started with the amster bedroom with a drum
sander and 24 grit paper but it still took all day. First I needed to get
through the paint and then the yellow stuff underneith (like putty) just
keeps gumming up the sand paper when it is heated. I tried stripping parts
of the floor first with stripper but that didn't help much. Using a heat gun
helps a bit but is very, very labour intesive. Does anyone know how to
remove this"putty" without 200+ sheets of sandpaper?
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| scott21230@gmail.com 2006-05-31, 11:21 am |
| I would use the heat gun.
HotRod wrote:
> I have some very old, 100+ years, cedar floors in my house and decided that
> I'd refinish all of them. I started with the amster bedroom with a drum
> sander and 24 grit paper but it still took all day. First I needed to get
> through the paint and then the yellow stuff underneith (like putty) just
> keeps gumming up the sand paper when it is heated. I tried stripping parts
> of the floor first with stripper but that didn't help much. Using a heat gun
> helps a bit but is very, very labour intesive. Does anyone know how to
> remove this"putty" without 200+ sheets of sandpaper?
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| dadiOH 2006-05-31, 11:21 am |
| HotRod wrote:
> I have some very old, 100+ years, cedar floors in my house and
> decided that I'd refinish all of them. I started with the amster
> bedroom with a drum sander and 24 grit paper but it still took all
> day. First I needed to get through the paint and then the yellow
> stuff underneith (like putty) just keeps gumming up the sand paper
> when it is heated. I tried stripping parts of the floor first with
> stripper but that didn't help much. Using a heat gun helps a bit but
> is very, very labour intesive. Does anyone know how to remove
> this"putty" without 200+ sheets of sandpaper?
How thick is it? Could it be linoleum?
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