do you like pre finished hardwoods?
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Installing Pre-Finished Hardwood over existing hardwood
Comments (0)Does anyone know if you can install pre-finished hardwood flooring over existing hardwood? If so, what are the top pre-finished brands that you are aware of? Can this be a less expensive option than refinishing hardwood floors? Thanks Amy...See MoreQuestion about sanding and finishing pre-finished hardwood floor
Comments (19)I think the misinformation was about screening and recoating a site finished and doing a board replacement. On site finished if you have a problem its much harder to do a single board replacement and have it blend. Most times you would have to resand the entrire floor to make it look good. With factory fiished a single board could be replaced without resanding adjoining areas. Either could be screened and recoated without sanding. Comments about factory finishes scratching are sometimes due to the fact that with multi coat products the almunium oxide is left off the top coat. It tends to look milky and the idea is to make the top coat easy to repair when scratches occur so its often pure urethane with the AO below the top coat....See MorePre-finished hardwood versus finished on site
Comments (2)I didn't know they made engineered floors finished on site. I have solid hardwood, 3/4 select white oak, stained and finished on site. when we made the decision we ewre between site finished and prefinished. at first my wife was piushing for the prefinished b/c she thought it would be significantly faster, we weren't living there at the time. it really isn't for a good flooring company. All the wood was down in 1 day, and another 3 of finishing. Price for the oak wasn't significantly different either way, maybe 5%. Either or, I like the seamless look and feel, it was what I grew up with as "normal" so that may be why. I know a few people with prefinished, sometimes it looks/feels fine, sometimes not so much. If I fell in love with a prefinished product that had a special finish applied, ie some of the handscraped stuff, the exotic woods that have some real interesting coloring etc, I would go with that. Otherwise I prefered site finished. Again though, for me the difference was 5%. at 50% difference I might have a different opinion...See MoreSite-finished vs. pre-finished hardwood floors?
Comments (23)Doesn't change my opinion either. With site finish you have a lot more control in the finish color with mixing and still have a chance to match... as someone said if it was done recently you might even have the formula, assuming your goal is to still try and match. My question to the good floor contractor is how they plan on handling the transition. In an ideal set up they would selectively remove some old planks and stagger in some new ones, sand flush, then finish, creating a seamless and undetectable transition. Since you don't have interest in refinishing the other spaces I'm unsure of all the options. If possible it'd be nice to not have a clunky threshold piece in the way....See Morenanjean68
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