Finishing Raw Wood Floor

Learn how to finish and protect raw wood without changing its color or darkening the wood.

Finishing raw wood floor.

Like wrinkles the marks of time on your floors are like memories. Brush up on the basics of 8 popular options before choosing yours. It is amazing the difference in floor color between a water base and oil base finish. Here s the basic protocol for sanding your floor whether you re knocking down raw wood or stripping an existing finish.

Hardwood floor finishes have varying levels of ease durability even glossiness. This technique works with any sheen. Hardwood floors tend to be resistant to soaking up liquid spills owing to the closeness of the grain. Unfinished hardwood floors are becoming a popular choice because they can be installed and then customised with a colour stain and either a lacquer or oil finish to provide a matt semi matt or natural appearance and offer protection to your wooden floor.

Besides building custom wood projects i have also refinished a few hardwood floors as a remodeling contractor. Raw floors will be more susceptible to stains and watermarks but as the wood ages like our face the marks of time will show. Those who love the look of raw unfinished wood and those who can t wait to slap on some poly to amplify the wood s natural beauty. However an up side to that is with a site finished floor a screen and recoat is possible as an option for floor care and maintenance eg.

And like memories some are better than others and the best part about hardwood flooring is that you can sand away those memories if one day you think you ve had enough. That is because wax by itself will not keep the floor from getting water damaged from the least little spill and as you can see unless the floor is well finished some say well sealed wax cannot be buffed to the nice satin sheen it is. Pine can serve as a beautiful softwood flooring in any home whether you ve just installed it yourself or had it professionally done. Unlike hardwood flooring though softwood does not come pre finished.

There are two types of people in the world. This is a property that makes hardwood floors more durable than for instance a pine floor but also makes them more difficult to finish. You ll go through this three times using increasingly finer grits of paper as you go. But paste wax and that is what i ll be discussing here is not really a wood finish but merely a top dressing for an already film finished floor.