Screening Wood Floors Between Coats

You ll be screening most of the floor with the floor polisher and screens.

Screening wood floors between coats.

We walk you through e. Part of a regular maintenance program. A screen and re coat is a good maintenance plan after you floors have been fully sanded and refinished. Instead of paying for a complete refinishing flooring can be brought back to life but don t expect deep scratches and dings to be removed.

If there are deep scratches and worn finish a screen and re coat will not suffice. A screen and re coat will over freshen up the top layer a polyurethane. Learn how to screen and re coat a hardwood floor with polyurethane by watching the floor experts at pete s hardwood floors do it first. Wood floor screens for a buffer machine.

Screening both smooths the floors a bit and the abrasive action allows the polyurethane to adhere to the surface better. That was a long winded explanation that only just hinted at the purpose of a screen and recoat. The screens are specialized. This knocks down any high spots on the disk that can dig too deeply into the finish when the polisher first starts up.

Screening should remove only a tiny fraction of the existing finish. This will always bring up the grain of the wood and your floors will no longer look as smooth as they were. After the floors are screened which could take an hour or two or sometimes 1 2 day to a full day pending on the areas we then apply 1 coat of polyurethane either oil based or water based. The first coat is a wood sealer.

4 tips for screening hardwood floors before attaching the screen take the edge off it with 100 grit sandpaper loaded onto a palm sander. You will not have the option to change the stain color. Once your hardwood floor refinisher is satisfied that the wood floors are sanded properly the finish coats start to go on. Screening a hardwood floor requires the use of a screen like pad that is installed on a 16 inch floor polisher which works similar to an oscillating sander.

This is desirable because floor screening should only leave enough texture in the floor to allow a new coat of polyurethane to bond.