How to Use an Edge Floor Sander 

Tbh this method is fairly specific to this edger because it’s so angled, the flip is much more forgiving isn’t it? We don’t have super 7s and all that

just the video, its deafeningly loud!

Oh.. lol yeah I put my headphones in and listen to music when sanding. Be nice if it was all as quiet as the buffer . Lol

+Eric Floors wish i could say the same. our dustless is the loudest thing ever. louder than the hummel and edger.

You're welcome!

glad to hear it! :)

Lol Thanks

good luck!!

awesome glad to hear that! :D

My pleasure!

How To Sand A Floor what grit to start with on the edge sander ? If drum started at 36 then should the edger start with 36?

mino I sand a floor a day. so far I've sanded a few thousand floors

Oh man, that killed me too. You must have a bad back or be near 50 hrs old. I had my wife rub Icy Hot on my spine, took pain killers and was in agony the whole 300 feet of edging to do. I moaned and groaned each time I had to go to the rental store and rent that damn thing again. So glad I’m over that! This is definitely a sport for young people.

That’s what I recommend yes

No fuss 🍻

jayde o'bryant that sounds about right! This is a Bona Edge (now called Bona Edge XL)

yes it does but you can't avoid that, the scratches can show especially if you are staining, which is why its vital you get the 36 or 40 grit scratches out full when you do the 60 grit, then get the 60 grit scratches out with the 80 or 100 grit. Its also best to go over the floor with an orbital/oscilating sander to remove all scratches

fill it between grits. (between your first and final pass with the sanding)

kingparrot scrapers

If you want to keep the bevel, you really just need to not sand the floor too deeply. Usually if i sand the floor with just a 60 grit and finer, we can save quite a lot of the bevel, sometimes the floor is uneven in areas and where it pops up slightly the bevel will disappear. I don't sand or scrape the bevels myself, but sometimes customers will do it themselves before i arrive, especially if the previous finish was quite dark. hope that helps

Its impossible to sand with the grain on herribone, all you can do is try to sand against the grain as evenly as possible. sksrndelux

***** Wrong....

Lol I say no! But how did it turn out?

@@MrEurolaf ended up using one of those 4 pad orbital machines instead. It got close enough to baseboards didn't need an edger and it turned out pretty good. 👍

airupthur ML23 flips are very good, they don’t really do b2 in the U.K. I just got a Pallman gecko and I love it, even easier to adjust wheel height than the flip.

I don't know how i didn't see this message, it's a Bona Edger, it also is crazy loud. The quietest is the lagler unico. You never get everything together, power, dust extraction and low noise. Every edger is missing one of those components in my experience

Oh ok thanks

***** Hello Ben, I was wondering if the best ear protectors available can fully protect your hearing? Or are you sort of guaranteed a certain amount of hearing loss no matter what precautions you take, if you choose to do this for a living? Thanks!

Clement Yeh almost any professional earmuffs protect your ears very well, you would be surprised. My hearing is damaged from years of doing it with no ear protection.

+Anonymaus Machine awesome video though!!!

edging stool, on wheels

Use a cheap rolling office chair and remove the backrest and armrests on it. Saves your knees, back and makes sanding a lot more efficient.

Instead of bending over, keep back straight and squat

Dude, the Bona has 2.7HP and the super7 has 1...

delta/detail sander or palm sander for the corners, or just fold a disk and do it by hand. To clean out the gaps you could use a pipe cleaner

***** I use a sharpened 2 1/2" paint scraper and shave the corners flush and open the grain a little with fine paper. Keep it sharp.

JDBOMBDOTCOM I like your videos , I've learned a couple things from them and I do floors for a living. You're good at floors and making videos.

+JDBOMBDOTCOM This is how I do it. Hit it with an orbital first to make it smaller and 15 seconds later it's done.

find a wood scraper tool its like a hand planer you pull.

Either it’s a very sappy wood or a very gummy finish, what grit are you using?

@@HowToSandAFloor 80

Going through pads like mad!

Also 100g same.

My elbows are rested on my bent knees, its not that bad. I have spent entire days like that, I won't lie, my back is stiff after but ive been doing it 10 years now, I'm ok!

@@HowToSandAFloor You should use a cheap office chair on wheels. Saves your back and knee and efficiancy goes up. Just remove the armrest and backrest and it takes no space in the car :)

what makes you say that?

if you've sanded floors b4 u know that's not a regular floor

ive sanded floors non stop for 10 years and i sand these allll the time

I know in Chattanooga and NW georgia I haven't seen any

I've been sanding for 3 years going on 4

how to sand then?

Beccie Bishop Thanks for the comments, you are definitely right. It isn't the best way to do it. All im demonstrating in the video what is going to work the best for someone that doesn't have years of experience on the tools. I have to admit i disagree that the best way is to do it just straight against the grain. That's doable by a pro, but not the best. For someone doing it themselves its totally the wrong advice, it would look like the seven seas

+COLDSUDDENFURY So how do you sand with the grain on a parquetry floor? every other block is against the grain!! I thought his edging tecnik was really good. Well done Ben.

Well Timberoo? I'm assuming you're probably Australian with that stupid name... I shouldn't really need to teach a "flooring specialist" his own job, but my method (the correct method) means you are only sanding against the grain half of the time you sand, cancelling out any lines you make ie... scarring, when you switch to go across what you've done, corner to corner x 4 with each grade. I have seen Ben's (and your) method many times, in fact, I am regularly paid to correct this corduroy effect left behind when people such as yourself, sand parquet floors against the grain for the whole time you are doing the job. You sand up and down with each grade because it's the lazy way, takes half the time, and your scarring would show up the minute you apply a sealant, especially if you were to apply a stain. My method not only cancels out scarring, but keeps the floor completely flat, and level, as each block being individual, is sanded with all grits, from every conceivable direction during the process. So to answer your question, you cant always, but if you are doing it correctly, you will only be sanding against the grain of half the herringbone pattern!! Hope you enjoyed my tutorial!!!

I have also been doing it 10+ years. If you want to find out why I think you are wrong you will have to read my guide on sanding parquet floors on the website. I explain it clearly there. You are wrong, I promise ;)

+How To Sand A Floor +How To Sand A Floor I have just looked at your tutorial on the website, and the key thing here is the machine you are using. Your fear of leaving a "lumpy or uneven surface" could be down to the fact that the width of the belt on your machine is only 8". Your drum is able to sand into one singular soft block, because your drum is smaller than standard/most common parquet blocks. The reasons given on your web page do not effect me at all, as I don't use anything smaller than a 10" continuous belt sander, and i wouldn't use anything smaller for this very reason. Even for strip/plank floors, an extra 2" of width makes a lot of difference in both time, and how level you can make a floor without ever needing to sand floorboards diagonally (A HHS hire machine instruction). Also on your appraisal of the Hummel machine, like the Clarke floor crafter, I find them a little poor for the reasons stated above. The oldest, but still the best machine I own is Deva belt 250.

+COLDSUDDENFURY did you read the rest of the article? The whole point is that sanding against the grain is more aggressive than sanding with the grain. Sanding the floor diagonally means you are going 50% with the grain and 50% against the grain and that's what causes the unevenness. It does t matter how wide your drum is. You really shouldn't be reading hss instructions as they are totally clueless. If you are sanding pine floor boards then you should know after 10 years that a knot will lump out of the floor and will cause a line sideways across the floor every time the drum or a wheel goes over it. But to top it off it is in the instruction manual of most of the floor sanding machines I have seen. I have worked with many other companies over the years and debated this with many people. If your goal is to convince me then I would save time and give up. Also the Hummel is older and is the best. While it's slower on the higher grits the Hummel can really rough up nasty floors faster

Haha, paint remover doesn’t remove scratches, dents and level the floor though!😁

mino The machines gets fucks you up!