The end results of the floor looks fabulous, compaired to what it was when you started.. Much hard work, I'm sure, but incredible end results.. 💯🎥🎬👍👌✌️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🇺🇲😊
They did turn out nice. You worked very hard at it. I appreciate a man that put so much time and effort into this sort of thing. Just about anything at all can be saved.
Nice. I was trying to guess the stain color, I was thinking my mom's favorite special walnut by minwax but heck that was thirty five years ago and I don't know if they even make that color anymore. I looked until I found the color in the thread. Espresso. Beautiful. I like the dark, dark stain like this. The fifties house I bought, man I don't think the stain was a real color to tell you the truth. It was like an awful red. Ugh! One day I said that's it, can't look at this anymore. Painted those bad boys white. Removed all hardware and it turned out they varnished the hardware, ugh! I soaked the hardware and it turns out they were 316 stainless steel handles. They shine like diamonds. Don't you just love admiring the hard work after you're done and accomplished the impossible. So satisfying. Good luck with your house. Still working on mine but mine was in some real bad shape. I figure this house will kill me before I get it done. Oh yeah, and there's nothing we can't do once we put our mind to it. Heck, I learned masonry at 63 and I"m an old broad.
Thank you so much for posting this! I am right in the middle of repairing my wood floor in my 1954 home and this has been so helpful and encouraging! I can do this!
Great job! I honestly didn’t think those floors were going to look that good. I see you had an Indian Lake shirt on, do you live near there? We are on Raquette Lake. Slainte, DC🍀
Wow!! The floor turned out beautifully perfect! I have the same pine wood floor and this inspired me to do my floor!! Thank you for sharing your Journey.
Thank you for taping up the fireplace. Had a DIY couple near here sanded their floors and didn't tape it up and all that dust got all up in the chimney and a few months later when they lit it the chimney caught fire. They were able to get it out quick enough to save the house but that nice fine wood dust burned real easy and quick.
We pulled the carpet up in our home we just bough. We lifted a corner and got so excited because we saw beautiful floors but the high traffic areas were stained black and it was just bare wood like water damage had taken the finish off the floors. We had a contractor come in and sand and lighten the black but we did get it to where I could have it stained the light color I wanted it was just expensive. Carpet is just the worst idea ever.
I have the same heart pine floors and casework in my house. I put a lot of sweat equity in mine too but the end result made it worth it. And you are correct, replacing it would be a LOT more expensive. Great job!
I need to do my 1955 floors. They have cupping as well. This looks amazing and ya know even if mine don't end up perfect, I am fine with flaws...gives some character. The fact that I have floors from 1955 that can look beautiful again in 2023 well 🎉🥳 I think that is pretty amazing actually.
For someone who may be looking at this in the future, Zinsser sells a two part wood bleach. It comes in packages that are too small and may be expensive for doing a full floor, but I’ve used it when refinishing furniture and it’s useful. It’s probably easily accessible chemicals, think for sure it’s peroxide and an activator, but if you have a project like this might be worth investigating. I haven’t gotten that far yet but thought I’d leave this for someone who might be investigating doing this. I have wood floors too but the finish is good except for a couple marks and I probably won’t get there for a year or so.
Thank goodness I found this video. My floors looked just like that if not worse. The pet stains are over powering even after trying several cleaners. I'll try the Peroxide and see how that works.
Agree. All of these videos seemed to think they need to feel empty time where they're doing something repetitive and time-consuming like sanding the floors with loud busy cheerful music and it's unbearably loud sometimes. The sanding was pretty loud too so my suggestion would be just mute it all a little bit and either speed up the video until you're through standing or just do one of those wipes across the screen that lets everybody know a lot of time has passed and get to the last stage. Otherwise a great video
Just found your channel. This is my first video to watch. Such a beautiful outcome! You worked really hard and it shows. I enjoyed watching. Thank you!
i had a table with water damage where the legs were all black at the bottom. i mixed up wood bleach in a cup (no, not the regular bleach) and sat the black legs in it. they now look perfect! next time i would suggest trying that.
They sell wood bleach you know. It really works great after floor sanded. So you won't be need to sand floor thin. Just need to sand the finish off. I like to be different i like stain floors with black stain then sand off and then use royal blue wood stain on my floors looks great with the black wood grain of oak. Really great look on floor. The blue is really beautiful on wood grain.
Next time you rent those tiny sanders try adding some weights on top, second when you edge the machine is made to go left to right. I use hydrogen peroxide on all pet stains as well
Beautiful! My question is -- what about the urine smell?? Was that present when you started -- and did this make it go away completely? About to move into a 160 year old house with lovely floors except for the past 20 years when I cat lady lived there. Very bad odor - and staining, of course.
Part of the reason it took so long is I found you have to let the floors breathe. I did not stain or seal the floors until the smell had dissipated. Between sanding them and several cleanings I do not smell any urine. Great question
Please can I know what product you use to remove those very bad stain. And your color is espresso and what finish you used. Can I know please. It is great knowledge from you if repair the old one thank you 🙏
I really appreciate the fact that you took the time to video all this but at the same time I get that it was definitely a lot if work nevermind the recording of it..but I was disappointed when it came up that you lost the rest of the footage no disrespect at all I was curious on what you did use on the finishing parts ... thanks again for taking the time.. one quick tip I found out by accident was that during the holiday I left a bag by the garbage bag by the door not sure what leaked out but when I got back someone already took the garbage out and it left a really bad stain to the point where it took of some of the stain off .but I usually like to keep a water bottle with dawn and water making my own well I other products would not remove the stain but the watered down dawn after staying it on and using a little scrubbing pad just a little and washing it off with a wet clean cloth much to my surprise the stain came out dawn work on a lot of things so I am happy about that but the floor is in need of a light sanding and a redo that is why I was watching. But I can never find a video on a light colored floor ugg.. hope the tip helps just don't leave the dawn on too long rinse and wipe it soaked it up right away should work out good ..I've used it on put door teak and works like a charm ❤
How long do you leave the peroxide on? or before you can sand it. Luckily we only have couple spots but I definitely want to try to try to make them lighter.
Do I have questions :P We bought a house prior to the auction, We are dead set on saving the hardwood floors throughout the home. Like this video, they had carpet and pets over the years, So step one would be sanding them all down first then cleaning them with the peroxide. We also will be renting the machines. So rent them on a Friday giving us the weekend with the floor sanders, I have zero experience running :) It might take longer but from what I have learned so far the Orbital is easier to handle. Step one? step two? and on would be? Oh, and we are 60 and 74 years old :) After three years of health issues, we just can not afford to hire anyone. I hope to see some positive replies. Thank you!
Maybe your floors are done already, but I wanted to say that I have done the rented sanders, sand edges by hand thing years ago. More recently I sanded, painted a light base coat, then mixed darker paint with a glaze and painted rooms in 4" strips. Ran a graining tool thru the glaze, then four coats of varathane High traffic satin finish. So any nasty stains that stink, or wont go away can be shellaced prior to painting and floor will be fresh as a daisy. No,one believes that my floors are paint instead of real stained wood. Also,, I just tiled my sunroom, with 16x16 tile. I am 72...just eat food that God made instead of manmade chemical junk and you may stay strong and healthy. I am the most active, strongest person I know besides people the age of my children.
What color is that? I have few pee stains just like that I'm hoping to use a dark stain like this I'm doing matte since I suck at sanding I have scratches lol.
Thanks I ended up using golden mahogany it looks reddish dark since my floor is red oak oh well you live and learn I'm still working on the polyurethane tonight and tomorrow.
How did you get the smell out. I’m not as concerned about some discoloration on mine…they’re old. But if I go through all that work and they still smell like pet… I can’t stand that. I would rip them out at that point and put in LVP, but I’m really hoping to salvage mine. But right now the whole house smells like pet urine.
I don't know what rentals are in your area or the cost of supplies however, I think I had about $500 for all the rooms...time is what it will cost you the most. I only needed the machines for a day or two and the rest washing and scrubbing. It can be done, just takes time and no it will not be perfect, just better
How much does that cost? I have original hardword with mystery stains (and some I know aren't a mystery - mea catta culpa!) and an area where the owner didn't bother to put in more flooring after replacing a wood floor heat return - just filled in the area with crappy board! I need help.
Can't answer you on what it will cost you, I had about $500 between tool rental, stain and cleaning supplies but this was for all the floors not just one room
These older homes have wood that is much better than what we get in the stores today. I would guess that as long as there hasn't been termite or water damage you might be okay but you would have to look. I had some gaps as well and just filled in the large gaps with wood putty and left the others alone. Best of luck!
Did you have fun hand sanding down the old cat and dog piss? Just because it looks better doesn't mean it's not there. Def. Should've cleaned and disinfected the floors right after sanding.
They might not have but after having to smell them for months they probably were able to cope knowing they were getting rid of the smell once and for all. And I bet they had fun spending the money that they saved!
I used straight up 3% peroxide. Poured it straight on the floor after sanding, scrubbed and covered with a soaked paper towel for several hours. Did this several times. Achieved faster and better results keeping it wet with the Peroxide and towel method.
diy is not for hardwood floors! Edit: the best hardwood floor job you can do as a diy will not even come close to what professional guys are doing, it's the skills, experience and the tools too. just because you "like" the floors after a diy job doesn't mean it actually looks good.
I think the "blonde spots" and remaining stains would be deceptively shallow, less than 1mm, and another run with the drum sander would have removed them and levelled the floor. No chance of skimming that with the orbital. Unfortunately, the stains show right through even that dark wood stain.
Absolutely - cutting deeper with sander is the way! Peroxide bleaching or some acids can hide stains a bit, but the correct way is to really remove the top stained and oxidized layer. Using that big fat drum sander that can take lot of material. There are few spots where is still visible original "orange" tint of previous finish because some of boards were more bow or porous. That also need to be sanded .... and not locally with small hand sanders - that create small pits that will pop up next time renovating this floor. Removing old, oxidized and stained material is also important to ensure that new varnish / tint / finish will adhere properly, will not change colour randomly at random spots. Because all these visible various parts of floor also contain chemicals from previous finishes that can react with new finish.....
