Hello and Welcome to another Woodfloor-Renovations blogpost.
Today we'll be touching on a subject that many end users are unsure of.
The question I have recently been asked is:- "Can my Engineered Wood Flooring be Sanded and Refinished ? "
This lady had contacted us with regards to having her floors restored, but had heard from someone she knew that Engineered wood floors couldn't be sanded and sealed.
So she got in touch with us and asked us to quote for the restoration works. On our site visit I was able determine that her Engineered Oak strip flooring was in fact more than good enough to properly sand off and refinish.
The single strip flooring did have a 4mm wear layer which hadn't been sanded before, so even though our sanding processes took off about 1mm of material, there is plenty of oak material left on the wear layer for at least one more sand off.
The floor overall wasn't in too bad a condition, and didn't really have bad gauges in the floor, more small scratches and indentations in 2 or 3 high wear areas of the two rooms that we restored. The trouble is with some Engineered floors that the wear layer may only be 1 or 2mm in thickness, and the indents and gauges are literally scratched through to the plywood core of the material.
This is when trying to sand off an Engineered wood floor can be problematic, because if you sand through the wear layer to the plywood core then the floor would be ruined, and almost certainly the floor sanding contractor would be liable for the damage.
So in answer to the original question...Yes an Engineered Wood Floor can indeed be Sanded and Re-Finished, but who ever is doing the works must be completely sure that the wear layer of the floor is thick enough to be able to take a full sand and seal.
Hope that helps anyone who reads this blog...Forewarned is forearmed.
Thanks for reading - Regards Gary
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Today the question I've been asked is a very common one, but is of great concern to every person who asks....The question is "Is Dust Free Floorsanding really dust free ??"
The very short answer to this is...No, its not 100% dust free.
No-one out there in the big wide world of floor sanding can honestly claim to provide a completely 100% dust free floorsanding service...But...you can claim to provide a 95% dust free service.
I believe there is actually a European Parliamentary Directive that seeks to prohibit companies in Europe from claiming to offer a 100% dust free floorsanding service, well that's what I heard in Nov 2008 at the UK Bona headquarters in Milton Keynes...
For many people out there who have hired a floor sanding machine and sanded their own wood floors using hire shop equipment, the concept of a virtually dust free experience would seem like something of a far fetched fairy story, I myself have seen these hire shop machines in action, spewing out dust at a quite unbelievable rate, quickly filling even large rooms with never ending amounts of wood dust.
I hasten to add to have only seen the machines working, I have never used one of these lower quality sanding machines [and I never will]
At Woodfloor-Renovations we use Bona floor sanding machinery, its high end professional floor sanding kit that genuinely does collect 95% + of the dust particulates created during the floor sanding process. The remaining few percent is easily Vacuumed up, and right at the very end of all the sanding/vacuuming processes, we always tack cloth the entire floor to leave the area as dust free as possible.
It really is possible to have a virtually dust free floor sanding process, but you will need to use professional quality equipment to make the virtually dust free scenario a reality, and most importantly vacuum the floor frequently during the floor-sanding processes.
Hope that helps...Thanks for reading.
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Today's question is a contentious issue which happens every day to someone's Wooden Floor, follow a few of the following simple steps and it may not happen to you....
The question is..."High Heel damage to my wood floors, what can i do ??"
The quick answer is Not alot the damage caused by High Heels can be really bad, I myself have seen indents of well over 5mm into a hardwood floor, this kind of damage cannot easily be sorted out.
High heels concentrate a person’s weight on a small point (estimate: 125lb person = approximately 2,000lbs per inch when taking a normal step). This kind of force can damage many types of flooring, fracturing ceramic tiles and perforating vinyl, as well as denting wooden floors. While high heels in good repair may not damage wood floors, we recommend a ‘no high heel’ policy.
NEVER feel guilty about asking your friends to take off their high heels on entering your home, better that than having marks and indents all over your wood floor....
We have Sanded and Refinished numerous wooden floors of various species that have had high heel damage, very often the marks are removed during the floor sanding processes, but sometimes these marks CANNOT be removed with floor sanding as the indents are just too deep, these indents can be filled with a gap filling mixture, but its likely that you will still be able to see the indents, but to a much lesser degree, sometimes this is the best option.
- As I mentioned earlier, if people are coming into your home with high heels on, politely ask them to take them off, A NO HIGH HEELS policy will keep your wood floors looking good for many years.....
- If you wear high heels around your own home make sure the heel tips are in good repair, heels without tips are almost certain to cause damage.....
- Damaged wooden floors are not easily repaired, consult a professional for advice if you are in any doubt.
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