Sanding
The
sanding and finishing of a hardwood floor is an important part of the
installation process, as it is essential that your hard wood floor is
finished to the highest specification possible.
Our
hardwood floor sanding service is used as the first process for adding the
finish touch to a newly laid solid hardwood floor or even to refurbish an
old or established solid hard wood floor. We can sand and prepare all types
of hardwood flooring whether to a new floor or for a established floor.
Each of
our hardwood floor sanders has many years experience, having had experience
in sanding all types of flooring.
Sanding a Timber Floor
Floor
sanding are done by drum type sanding machines. In drum sanders the
sandpaper is mounted on a cylindrical drum that rotates on an axis parallel
to the plane of the floor. Thus the sandpaper makes its scratches in
straight lines in the direction of movement of the machine. A drum sander,
however, can not reach the last few inches of floor nearest the baseboard.
Electric edgers, which are small disk sanders, are available for sanding
these edges of the floor or they may be done by hand.
Sandpaper
In sanding a floor, time is saved by starting with coarse sandpaper to
remove the grosser roughness and imperfections and to make the floor level
as quickly as possible. The scratches left by the coarse grits are then
removed by successive sanding with a finer sandpaper. The scratches left by
the last paper should be too small to be observed even after the finish has
been applied
or that requires some restoration.
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