Strip Painted Wood Floors

In some cases though you may want to remove an old varnish to.

Strip painted wood floors.

How to strip varnish off a wood floor. In early houses every feature had a practical origin and wide board painted wood floors were no exception. A large wide paint brush. Use a detail sander fitted with 36 grit sandpaper to remove the old finish under places the large sander couldn t reach such as under the toekick and in corners.

The majority of floors were constructed of wood planks from 8 to 18 wide because narrow boards were expensive to prepare in a pre industrial era and therefore reserved for the best rooms. It ll work on both oil based and water based paints and all it takes according to the spot removal guide is to point the heat gun at the paint and at the same time scratch the paint. Our method for stripping and buffing hardwood floors to refinish them. How to strip hardwood floors.

How to remove paint from wood floors with a heat gun using one of our favorite heat guns is one way to soften paint so you can remove it from your floor. Change the disks on the random orbit sander to 60 grit abrasive and sand entire floor. If this is the first time you re stripping a hardwood floor it s best if you start out by testing on a smaller area somewhere in a corner. Pour the stripping solution on the floor area and smudge it across it.