A home with wooden floors is always welcoming and cozy. The right wooden floors can make your home look exceptional, but you will need to look after these floors properly to ensure that they are in their best condition. Keeping your wooden floors polished and clean will go a long way in maintaining their beauty, and sealing your wooden floors is almost a necessity.
A good way to keep your wooden floors well maintained, or to restore wooden floors that are going into shambles, is to sand them down and then seal them with a good varnish that can be polished regularly. We will take a look at the measures you will need to take to sand your floors successfully.
Preparation:
Firstly you need to remove all the furniture from the room, or area that you are going to be sanding. Most floor sanding tools feature an efficient dust pick-up, but it is most likely that some dust will escape during the course of your sanding. In order to ensure good ventilation you must ensure that all the windows are open.
All tacks, staples and other unwanted fixings must be removed from the floor. Failure to do so will result in damage to the abrasive paper and sanding drum of your floor sander. If there are any nails protruding, they must be punched below the surface of the floor using a suitable nail punch and hammer. Any screws used to fix the floor boards should be counter sunk below the surface.
Any loose boards or block must firmly fixed into place, and any heavy wax, grease or dirt deposits on the floor must be removed by hand. After doing this the floor must be vacuumed and swept thoroughly to remove any dirt and discarded fixings.
Operation of Your Sanding Machine:
Floor sanders are powerful machines. Always ensure that you have a firm grip before you switch it on. To prevent damage to the floor surface, always ensure that the sander is moving when in operation and that the sanding drum is in contact with the floor. Never lift the back of the machine whilst sanding and never apply pressure to try and increase the rate of sanding. It is important to be patient and to guide the sander gently, never dwelling in one place but moving steadily at all times. Care must be taken to prevent the cable from coming into contact with the sanding drum. Another extremely important operating procedure is to never move backwards whilst sanding; only sand in a forward motion!
Important Notes on Sanding Parquet and Block Floors:
The grain of the wood will run in a number of directions, therefore the floor must be sanded in the direction of the main source of natural light in the room. If there is no source of natural light, sand in the direction of the longest side of the room. If the room is square, sand in the direction that the furniture is laid out. This technique will help mask any imperfections in the floor.
Sean Farrell
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melaniecampbell
February 26, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Fiance very reactive and defensive about everything!!?
My fiance is 31. he is a VERY defensive, highly reactive person. If he thinkg anyone is attacking him personally, or he feels his ego has been hurt, he FLIPS OUT. Like screaming "Yeah I’m a f—ing a–hole, I’m f—ing worthless, thats what you’re saying, I know, you don’t need to tell me!" and just goes OFF the deep end. If I do something like hiring someone to fix our leaky toilet because he hasn’t bothered, he goes nutty. Like "You are telling me I’m lazy and worthless, by hiring someone!" meanwhile it’s just because I want it DONE. He IS lazy, to the point where I DO hire people to come do things- like a landscaper for cutting the lawn, plumber fixed our toilet, and someone came over to fix our hardwood floors (they needed sanding and refinishing). He goes bananas every time because he says its basically me telling him hes a worthless bum because he "cant" do these things. I want to yell back- its NOT that you CANt its that you WONT!!
I am so tired of his defensiveness!
when I say to him "you really should spend some more one on one time with Chris (our 6 yr old son) he says "yeah yeah im a bad dad, i know, stop telling me about it, I’m worthless, you don’t need to rub it in".
Or when I say "Can you PLEASE fold this laundry? It needs to be done."– I get "yeah I guess it’s not enough I bust my a-s-s at work, I have to do this too so you don’t think I’m a total lazy jerk"
OR when I sai "can you start picking up after yourself, I’m so busy with work and the two kids I can’t be your maid too" he says "when you had kids that because your job, I didn’t pick it for you."
He’s just become really defensive and acts like everything anyone says is a total insult, and that everyone is out to get him and make him look like a jerk.
I can’t deal with walking on eggshells anymore trying not to hurt his EGO or feelings… how can I talk to him and get him to seek some counselling (which I think he really needs?)
Okay so I just talked to him about this and he says he doesn’t mean to get upset and defensive, that he just hates who he is, and that his whole life he has been treated like a loser, so he just thinks everyone thinks he IS a loser. He says he feels like everyone thinks hes a lazy good for nothing idiot.
SO I think this is some serious self esteem issues– how do I talk him into counselling for what appears to be an actual really intense issue with him??
Kimberly G
February 26, 2010 at 7:13 pm
he is a man
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Megg
February 26, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Give him the truth and nothing else. The truth hurts…but you also learn from it. Maybe he’ll take the constructive critisim and better himself.
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Jazzmin27
February 26, 2010 at 7:17 pm
You are complaining about your fiance and you still call him your fiance, you are a lot more crazy than he is, you make no sense and you show to be less intelligent for being engage to marry a man that you criticize, and you clearly don’t love.
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stacy a
February 26, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Sounds like you have two babies. I don’t know why you put up with this. Tell him to either do the work at home or shut up and hire someone. He needs to grow up before you get married.
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Justme
February 26, 2010 at 7:21 pm
He’s really unstable, you can’t ask for help without him trying to lay a guilt trip on you. How [or why] can you live with this stress he puts on you? Changes need to be made before it effects your health.
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Marina
February 26, 2010 at 7:23 pm
The guy is extremely unstable and filled with shame/rage. I would say that he is a rageaholic and a drama queen.
He’s an adult, you cannot make him see a therapist or even influence him to see one. He’d have to recognize that his relationship is in big trouble, seriously at risk, and that you’re going to leave, take Chris, and you mean it. Unless he has something to lose, he will do nothing. He has no reason to, you have been tolerating his behavior and he figures you still will. He doesn’t mind if you complain about it, as long as he can keep doing it.
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