Refinishing Parquet Floors: Start-to-Finish 

Great DIY Project. You did a great job as a homeowner and as your first time. Not to be condescending at all but the 'proper' way is to use a belt sunder and then the random orbit sander afterwards. Most rental places will rent you a drum sander which will work as well. The downside of using a professional belt sander is they have a steep learning curve and it is easy to ruin a hardwood floor with one. There are good videos on how to refinish a hardwood floor if you want to attempt it. Just using a random orbit machine as featured in this video will do the job, it will just take considerably longer. The goal is to remove all finish from the wood and to flatten the wood. When done sanding, the wood should be completely flat and raw with no scratches or swirls from sanding. Use a microfiber mop that is barely damp to wipe up dust and sanding particles between grits. Once sanding is done, apply your filler per instructions in an even but thin coat with a trowel (10 inch would be a good start. Lightly sand the corners of the trowel so they are lighty rounded so the corners do not snatch the floor). Sand once more to remove excess filler and thoroughly mop. Then apply your finish per instructions. Again, great job in the video. I own a business and install and refinish hardwood for reference of may opinion above.

They look fantastic! I love refinished wood floors, they have so much character!

Thank you so much for this! I have a house-full of this same flooring, and while I love it, it's been neglected for years. Hiring someone to do this was going to be really expensive, but watching your video makes me think I might be able to tackle this job.

Thanks a lot for this tutorial !!! Now is my time to work. Thanks from MVD Uruguay.

Sadie, I found my two major “wish-to-do’s” on your channel! Thank you for doing these videos! I think there’s so much content out in RU-vid that it’s about the viewer enjoying the maker’s style plus I see you actually reply to people’s comments. Again, I admit I’m 🥶 w fears/anxieties but I hope to try this DIY stuff. -Seattle

Beautiful flooring

Omg I'm so happy I found your video. I just doing renovation in my flat and when i remove my carpet I was shocked because I've got same parquet as you've got . I called companies and they telling me price between £1000-£1500 😬 which i can't afford. But once i watch your video i think i will do it the same way as you done it 😊

Two comments: I love that you give details like the size of the room the length of time it took you and how many sheets of each grit you used. Also love that you don’t verbally end every sentence with a question mark? Like so many people do? It’s so annoying? And really takes away from their video?😊

Your patience is enviable...I would have been pretty frustrated haha

You did an amazing job. well doneee.

Awesome and very inspiring

AWESOME JOB!!!

Thank you for uploading this video it's very useful & informative. I wanted to get my floor done but it would have cost me £400 pounds. So after watching your video i think I'll do it my self...

Awesome job. 😊

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Awesome work

Hi, we live on a boat with teak parquet floors. It's become very scratched as we do galley renos so I know there is a floor refinishing episode on our our own channel for us in the next 6 months! We find the teak overpowering in the cabin so our galley reno has minimized that a bit, but I'd like to underplay the teak colour on the floor if possible. Any suggestions on an oil product (as that is the best for teak) that won't necessarily deepen the almost-cherry colour of the teak? Thanks for this very straight-forward video.

Well done

Anthony Buday what would you recommend as another way to do this project since you’ve mentioned not to do it "her way"?

How much dust did it create?

I have parquet in the house I live in and most of the blocks were loose. I had to stick them all down again. I didn't sand it myself though.

OMW - after looking at this video you have inspired me to do this myself - I used a company to do my parquet floors about 3.5 months ago and the finishing the put on resulted in bubbles ( last minute i decided to switch from waterbased to polyutherane and i so mad at myself) - told me it will dissipate but it didnt really and now now have a 50QM floor with areas that bubbles - so p**issed off I didnt want to deal with the company again and now i look at this i feel i can do it myself ! May I please ask - HOW LONG did the entire process take from sanding to final curing ? Super thanks - From South africa

Could you please just tell me , was the sanding paper together with machine or you needed to buy separately ? Thank you

Surprised to see Rubio used on the floor. How's that holding up? Genuinely curious as it's not the most durable finish.

Why not do the filling first and then sand it?

Was wondering the total time frame for the entire job...?

Why didn’t you simply go over with a 120 and varnish. It looked fine!

Could you have gone dark or grey

sweet dog is worried about her home! 🤔

Do you think a complete novice could do this, aka me?

decided to paint mine after watching this Lol. too much work!

Can you rent out the machine?

OHH MY GOD LOOK AT THE DOG ?

Thats how do it wrong

They look the same 😮

Floor looks great but I think you need to paint those wooden doors to completely freshen up the room.

with so much work, you better change the flooring

Saw not much difference and after. Feels like a waste of time

I admire your handy work and effort but I don't recommend anybody refinishing parquet floors using this method. It would take too long and it's actually way easier and look way better if it's done with the right equipment.

You need to use a face mask if you are doing these things. There's no excuse in such a small closed space. Sanding wood that has been chemically treated and then using chemical treatments? Girl...

Nice job but lucky that the room is small, otherwise the girl would have been sanding the floor for more than a year 🙈😂😂…