Old Maple Hardwood Floors in St Paul
By Arne Johansson on May 11, 2009 in Maple Floors
Maple Floor After Sanding Before Finish Application
The above picture is a maple floor in St Paul after it got sanded. It hasn’t been coated yet. As you can see the perimeter of the floor has not been sanded yet. There are two main processes when your sanding a floor. There are body cuts and edge cuts. Body cuts involve sanding the main area of the floor. Essentially, you are sanding everything but the perimeter. The second process is when your sanding just the perimeter. This is called a edge cut. As you can see the edge cut has not been completed.
Maple Floors in St Paul After Oil Base Finish Application
In this picture you can see that the floor has been sanded completely and coated. This floor has three coats of finish on it. One is a shellac based sanding sealer. This provides a nice rich look to the floor. It also helps the second and third coat bond well to the wood. The second and third coat is a oil base polyurethane. I buff in between the second and third coat to help smooth the floor out and eliminate any remaining imperfections in the wood.
Maple Floor Before Sanding
This floor is in the process of being sanded. The original finish is an oil base. You can tell because the finish is a golden honey color. If it was a water base finish, then it would be lighter and would look like the areas that have been sanded around the perimeter in this picture.
After Maple Floor Sanded and Coated
Look how beautiful that floor looks. It is great and it makes a big difference getting your hardwood floors in St Paul sanded and refinished. I love making my customers happy. That is a goal on every job.
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I sanding a maple kitchen floor. It had substantial stains and required a lot of wood putty fill. It sanded well and was a nice white color like you have in the top picture. But due to all the putty I decided to apply a maple stain. used Old Masters penetrating stain; maple 40604
Unfortunately the color of the stain is much too yellow – almost orange.
What can I do to remove this new stain. I haven’t put on any polyurethane yet.
i’m in oak park illinois so i’m out of your area.
Thanks
Rob
rob gallogly | Jan 28, 2010 | Reply
Unfortunately, the only way to eliminate the stain is to completely sand the floor again. After you get the floors sanded, water pop the floor. Get a gallon bucket of water and two clean rags, get on your hands and knees and literally wipe the whole floor down with water using the wet rags. Wait 24 hours for the floors to dry and then apply the stain. Water popping opens up the pores and raises the grains in the wood. This process helps getting a more consistent looking finish and will help reduce the visibility of imperfections in the floor.
Arne Johannson | Jan 6, 2011 | Reply
We uncovered the flooring in our kitchen and I think we have maple hardwood flooring, the question is where can we get the tounge and grove flooring to match so we can replace the damaged areas? Our planks are 2 1/2″ wide and 7/8 th’s of a inch thick, the width is without the tounge and grove.
Diane johson | Jan 20, 2012 | Reply
You can get old maple flooring at Bauer Brothers in North Minneapolis. They usually have 1.5 inch maple and 2.25 inch maple in stock. Double check your measurements on the 2.5 inch, because that is rare if it is 2.5 inch. If it is, it will be harder to find.
Arne Johannson | Feb 3, 2012 | Reply