Newly Refinished Wood Floors - Is this okay?
Zach
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When to apply Bona to newly refinished wood floors
Comments (2)What kind of finish? If it's water based it's probably best to wait a week before using any water on the floor. The oil based finish would probably withstand water within a day or two....See MoreCan I touch up missed spots on newly refinished floors myself?
Comments (7)Bona is a BEAST to work with. You need to know SOOOO much about it just to get it on the wood let alone making it look "good". Bona is tricky. Right after that it is tricky. Some say it is duplicitous (see tricky) and just for good measure it is HORRIBLE to try to figure out on your own. And that's on raw wood. You should SEE what has to be done to get it to "stick" to an oil finish (oi vey). You do NOT want to see the muck-up that WILL OCCUR if you give it a go. Right now you have a fully functioning finish. Take some photos and send them to the refinisher. Let him/her know that you are willing to "try to live with it" for a little bit of time (be clear about the time) and if you can't handle it you will ask that s/he comes back to apply the spot application. Give the refinisher the benefit of the doubt and see if they will respond once you send the photos and offer to "live with it for a while". Be nice but firm that if you can't live with it you will expect a correction. It's the decent thing to...See MoreProblem with newly refinished red oak hardwood floor
Comments (13)I paid to have an independent, certified flooring inspector come in to evaluate my floors. His final report noted that the pinholes were caused by an improper finish. The flooring contractor applied 2 coats of polyurethane on the same day and did not allow sufficient time for the first coat to fully dry before they applied the second coat. The inspector noted a hazed appearance in numerous areas that were indicative of the previous coat not being fully dry before the second coat was applied. The wood was not a number 2 grade selection and the inspector contacted a technical adviser from the National Wood Flooring Associate and he said that there was nothing inherent to the red oak that would have caused the extensive pinholing in the finish that was observed and that this was due to either incompatible finish products being used or improper application procedures. I had a second company come in and redo the entire refinish - sanding down to bare wood and reapplying stain and 3 coats of poly and there are no pinhole visible on any floors in the house. The fact that the issue could be corrected by completing redoing the work lends credence to the original job having been poorly done. The original company tried applying a 4th coat of polyurethane but this did nothing to fix the pinholes. If you look at page 59 of this PDF, pinholes can appear in the finish of a floor if the previous coat was not fully dry (http://www.crescenthardwood.com/nwfa/ProblemsCauses.pdf). The bottom line was that I was out a lot of money from the first contractor, which was a large reputable company in my area, because they refused to fix the issue or even test to see if their finish job was the issue and had to go through the aggravation of having the entire job redone. The second company came out and sanded the floor of a closet and reapplied stain and 3 coats of poly to ensure that it was the previous finish and not inherent to the wood. The test area showed that when done correctly no pinholes in the finish formed....See MoreRefinish newly refinished hardwoodfloors to lace in new kitchen floor?
Comments (14)If you like the current color I recommend adding to it and using an flush divider, which we generally call a header. One advantage of this (besides costing less, being less disruptive and causing less consequential damages) is that in the future the kitchen could be recoated up to the header. Your kitchen will get several times more wear than most areas of the house and will require recoating more frequently. It's often a challenge finding a place to stop the coat that doesn't show a stop-line, meaning that we often have to recoat more area than necessary. If you were more interested in making it perfect rather than acceptable, I would recommend paying the floor guy for the wood he bought, wait until you're ready for a kitchen renovation, lace the wood in at that time and refinish everything. They may not be willing to store the wood so you might need to find a conditioned space to store it. This strategy would also protect you if something on the new kitchen varies slightly from the existing....See MoreZach
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