How To Refinish Parquet Floors Without Sanding

Remove the blue microfiber mop pad and replace it with the cream microfiber applicator pad.

How to refinish parquet floors without sanding. Our first pass is with a 40-grit belt on the big machine. Dragging it along the floor spreads finish evenly quickly and without leaving bubbles or. Clear a surface by means of the vacuum cleaner and a damp rag.

Some pros refer to this as sandless refinishing but that can also refer to a different method that substitutes a chemical etcher for the buffer. We cleaned the floor thoroughly with a Hoover Floorm. A start to finish demonstration of sanding and refinishing a parquet wood floor.

Sanding with the grain is best because its less aggressive and you have less scratching making for a smoother better-looking finish. The applicator is a weighted foam-covered tube on the end of a long handle. When sanding herringbone parquet diagonally you are sanding with the grain on half the blocks and against the grain on the other half.

Refinish Parquet Floors Without Sanding. The best way to refinish wood floors without sanding is to use a technique called screen and recoat. We go diagonally to most of the grain to prevent as much cross-grain sanding as possible while still flattening the floor.

Is it okay to refinish hardwood floor without sanding. Carefully wash out the floor with water It is recommended to use a special cleaner which contains a wax. If we attacked the floor straight like a strip floor we would dish out the softer grain spring wood causing humps.

This means that the blocks which are perpendicular to your sanding machine are going to be sanded down deeper than the blocks on which you are sanding. The reality is that a little bit of sanding is necessary before you can refinish your hardwood floor but there is a safe way to refinish hardwood floors with very little sanding. In this video I teach a college student how to give new life to an old hardwood floor in her apartment.