Sanding Maple Floors

That way you ll get a heads up on and hopefully the knowledge to avoid some of the problems you might encounter and some of the mistakes beginners make.

Sanding maple floors. It had every imperfection you can think of. I recently was asked to look at a maple floor to fix. When fine sanding maple floors always reduce drum pressure to its lowest setting and slow the drum speed if your machine allows for it.

Here are a few things i ve found that will help you in your sanding process if you find yourself having to sand one of these old maple floors. None of it is rocket science but it will help you to read through all the sanding pages including first things first working with sanders and edgers and the sanding faq before you begin. What works on oak doesn t work on maple.

Use when there is a good deal of flattening of the floor needed. 1 don t use too low of a grit. Avoid sanding maple too smooth.

You will remove a lot of wood stock even when sanding the hardest of wood floor species. You are most likely going to refinish one maple floor every few years so you will not get that many chances to practice. Use as the starting grit for floors with shellac finishes single layers of paint or some very hard floors like maple.

Depending on the finish being applied anything finer than 100 grit may be too smooth always consult the finish manufacturer s directions. Many times on these old maple floors there is a type of coating that tends to gum up the sandpaper. When you re sanding nail heads will rip the sanding belt which costs you money or gouge the sanding drum which costs you more money.

Sanding a maple floor is not like sanding oak. When it hits a nail you ll hear it. To detect nails drag a metal snow shovel across the floor upside down.