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Title: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: Scoobum on March 25 2012, 04:17:56 PM

I'm off this week...and I wanna sand the hardwood floor in the spare bedroom. I did the diningroom floor years ago with a drum sander...and it turned out great. I heard there's new sanders out there at the Rentall places that are more forgiving than the drum sanders. Any info would be appreciated.
 

Title: Re: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: larrym on March 25 2012, 06:46:07 PM

for just a refinish guys use a square buff its a giant palm sander........ .

Title: Re: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: daveismissing on March 25 2012, 06:53:44 PM

I found the drum sander almost impossible in a Br. You could only move a couple of feet and the handle stops your travel, too easy to get a ridge. Big pad sounds much safer.

Title: Re: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: Scoobum on March 25 2012, 07:27:07 PM

Think you're right. Was checking on Youtube and they have a triangular sander with three pads on it. Might be the hot ticket.

Title: Re: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: Scoobum on March 26 2012, 06:35:48 PM

Rented the orbital sander from Home Depot this morning...did a nice job. Just finished throwing a coat of varathane on it. One more coat in the morning...and pound the new baseboards on on Wednesday.

Title: Re: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: Steve Wood on March 26 2012, 07:25:58 PM

see?  we told you it was easy!

Title: Re: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: SuperSix on March 26 2012, 07:30:05 PM

Pics?

Title: Re: Sanding Hardwood Floors
Post by: Scoobum on March 26 2012, 07:50:05 PM

Quote from: Steve Wood on March 26 2012, 07:25:58 PM

see?  we told you it was easy!

Sanding was easy...loading the damn thing in the car...and then hauling it up the stairs to the 2nd floor almost killed me. It weighs a ton.