Protection for hardwood floor from chair with metal pedestal base
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Comments (2)We went through pretty much the same situation - our home had red oak flooring in the kitchen/dining area and ten years after we moved in we decided to install the same oak flooring in two adjoining rooms. We had the old floor refinished at the same time the new floors were finished and we decided to use a Swedish (Glitsa) finish, because it had held up well on the old floor. It was a major ordeal to remove all of our furniture (out to the garage), tape up all our kitchen cabinets and seal off the stairwell. We boarded our cats at the vet's office for the week, and headed out of town for four days; when we returned we threw all the windows wide open because the smell was awful. With the windows open it was tolerable, but unfortunately we ended up with the coldest day on record for July and had to go find someplace warm to kill time. I found no problem sleeping that night, with windows open, and after a couple more days (with the windows open) the smell disappeared. We waited a full week from the day the finish had been applied before bringing our furniture back in, just to be safe. In the end it was all worth the effort - it's been 12 years now and the floors still look great - just a few surface scratches in the dining area where a couple of my dining chairs lost their protective pads. I never wash the floors, preferring to spot clean with Pledge Multi Wipes and doing an occasional deep cleaning (only once or twice a year) with clean rags and mineral spirits in high traffic areas. (Windows open for sure when I do this!) I've tried floor cleaning products and never found one that didn't leave the floor looking dull. (We don't wear shoes indoors so that's a big reason why the floors stay pretty clean.) I would Google water-based vs. Glitsa to glean more info, especially from folks who use these products. You might also see if there's a paint store in your area who can show you samples of different wood finishes. In our area we have a couple of local shops who offer a variety of wood finishing products and they display a variety of woods with finishes. This might give you a better idea of what a water based finish would look like. Best of luck! :-)...See MoreHardwood floor care tips: area rug & pad, felt pads, how to clean
Comments (4)We are getting our 20 year old hardwoods refinished right now because they are trashed! Here are the "really" bad things we've noticed. Do not push your furniture across the floor! It will leave gouges. Buy tons of felt protective pads in all different sizes and put them on EVERYTHING. You also need to replace them frequently and keep the pads clean (if there is any grit or dirt on the pad the protective pad turns to sandpaper). Put an area rug under the sink/DW and water dispenser to catch drips (and shake and clean under rugs regulary so no dirt is trapped under them). Our kids have plasma cars and they have destroyed the floors so I would say no wheels at all on the floor. Don't push that piano! Swiffers or dust mops are great and help keeping it clean....See MoreTrim Height for 5' wide Engineered Hardwood Flooring
Comments (8)kge9, Thank you so much for letting me know! I think 4" trim would look nice if it is above the floor. Right now I have almost 3.5" trim that is partially covered with the thick rug and padding so 4" not covered will look nice and wide for me. I would love it if it came primed. Maybe I can suggest if I buy it and the installer installs it to save money. I feel I can also paint the trim but not the walls. I don't have baseboard heating (wish I did) since I forced hot air heating with vents on the floor. I would love it if the quarter rounds could be skipped! How much space did you leave from the floor to the wall? I can't believe all the furniture is out of those three rooms and I can't believe how much furniture I had in those rooms. I definitely plan on just using my dehumidifier to keep some back files in my garage since I don't want to move 3 of the 5-drawer 42" wide file cabinets back into my home office rooms. I want more of my walls to show and more space to walk. kge9, any pictures of your new trim with the tinted white you planned on using....See MoreProtecting Hardwood Floor from Metal Couch Footings
Comments (4)Nothing. There is no need. But if you insist, you can use massive area rugs. But here's the reasoning why you do not need anything underneath: The first thing is the feet aren't feet. They are metal beams. This is GOOD! The problem with metal feet (the size of a dog's paw) is the POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH. A small foot has HUGE pounds per square inch. You have very LOW pounds per square inch. Here's an example of what I mean: Eg. 1. A bar stool has 4 legs. Each foot = 1 square inch. That means the chair is resting on 4 square inches. The chair is 40 lbs (40 lbs divided by 4sq.in = 10 lbs/sqin) That means that each foot is taking on 10 lbs per square inch. Now a 360 lb person sits on that stool. The combined weight is 400 lbs. Do the math again. Each little foot is taking on 100 lbs/sq inch. Wow! That is MASSIVE (so's the person btw). Damage is likely to occur very quickly. Eg. 2. You have a sofa sitting on metal beams. Each beam is 4ft long and 4inches wide. Each beam is 192sq inches (12inches per foot x 4 ft = 48 inches: 48inches x 4inches = 192 square inches). You have 4 of them. That's a total of 768 sq.inches of surface which the sofa is sitting on. The sofa has a total weight of 200 lbs. The pounds per square inch are VERY low (200/768 = 0.26lbs/sq inch). Now you add 4 people onto that sofa (each person weighing 200 lbs). You have a combined weight of 1000lbs (200 + 200 + 200 + 200 + 200). Now let's do the math again: 1000/768 = 1.30 lbs per square inch. Do you see where the difference is? The stool, just sitting by itself is doing MORE DAMAGE than your sofa with 4 people sitting on it. The pounds per square inch are SOOOOOOO low that the floor isn't going to notice it. The way to think about it is this. A needle (sewing needle, hospital needle, etc) are very small and very sharp. It takes just a SMALL amount of effort to puncture the skin. That puncture = damage. Now compare that to the rounded end of a baseball bat. It is VERY HARD to puncture the skin with a round surface like a baseball bat. If you pressed the baseball bat into your palm, it just sits there. There is no damage done (no piercing of the skin). You would have to shoot the bat out of an artillery cannon to get enough force for it to go through skin (and everything else in it's way). As gruesome as this imagery is, it is the easiest way to explain pounds per square inch and the effects it has on a wood floor. Needless to say, your sofa is fine. Just make sure there aren't any rough barbs on those beams and your wood floor will be just fine....See Morepprioroh
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