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Refinishing Hard Wood Floors
Posted on 2/24/25 at 10:45 am
Posted on 2/24/25 at 10:45 am
Have about 400sqft of hardwood floors in rough shape. What's the average cost to refinishing hardwood floors? Stuck between refinishing or completely replacing them. If i replace them i will most likely not go with real wood floors.
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Posted on 2/24/25 at 11:09 am to 225tigahhh
Google AI says $2-$7 for sand/stain/refinish
By rough shape do you just mean they've lost their color? I would love to have hardwood floors that only need to be refinished every 10 years max. Install costs are outrageous now and you should preserve them if you have them.
Obviously do as you see fit, but I would do whatever I could to keep good hardwood floors for as long as you can. What type of foot traffic is this room seeing?
By rough shape do you just mean they've lost their color? I would love to have hardwood floors that only need to be refinished every 10 years max. Install costs are outrageous now and you should preserve them if you have them.
Obviously do as you see fit, but I would do whatever I could to keep good hardwood floors for as long as you can. What type of foot traffic is this room seeing?
Posted on 2/24/25 at 11:15 am to BilbeauTBaggins
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you should preserve them if you have them
Agree.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 11:42 am to BilbeauTBaggins
Lost color, few scuff marks here and there, old seal/stain flaking in some spots. Expected wear and tear on a 25 year old wood flooring. This is the living room so it'll be a heavy foot traffic area.
Everyone i spoke with is telling me exactly what you said to keep the wood floors and refinish. My only concern is having a "nice" refinished wood floor with young kids. I feel like tile or LVP is more kid friendly.
Everyone i spoke with is telling me exactly what you said to keep the wood floors and refinish. My only concern is having a "nice" refinished wood floor with young kids. I feel like tile or LVP is more kid friendly.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 12:04 pm to 225tigahhh
LVP is trash and should only be used by landlords on rental properties IMO.
I would say get a rug for the kids to play on. We have porcelain wood look tile in our house, have one kid with another on the way, and an 8'x10' are rug that the kids will play on. We have considered getting those rubber floor squares that the kids can play on but the rug works fine.
I would say get a rug for the kids to play on. We have porcelain wood look tile in our house, have one kid with another on the way, and an 8'x10' are rug that the kids will play on. We have considered getting those rubber floor squares that the kids can play on but the rug works fine.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 12:31 pm to 225tigahhh
Just had this quoted and it was between 4-5k for just over 500 sqft
Posted on 2/24/25 at 12:34 pm to 225tigahhh
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My only concern is having a "nice" refinished wood floor with young kids. I feel like tile or LVP is more kid friendly.
Wood can handle it. Just refinish it.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 1:15 pm to 225tigahhh
I did a set of floors by the LSU lakes. The floors had much of what you are talking about.
Instead of refinishing or replacing, we scratch the surface with a sander, applied a glue, went on top with a thin glue down oak, already finished.
The secret, change the direction of the lay. Like the different veneers on plywood, a change in direction adds to the strength of the floors.
It is by far the most cost effective.
Let me know if you need more information.
Instead of refinishing or replacing, we scratch the surface with a sander, applied a glue, went on top with a thin glue down oak, already finished.
The secret, change the direction of the lay. Like the different veneers on plywood, a change in direction adds to the strength of the floors.
It is by far the most cost effective.
Let me know if you need more information.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 1:17 pm to 225tigahhh
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Have about 400sqft of hardwood floors in rough shape.
Small job, if in BTR area, let me know. I’ll get you started.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 1:22 pm to 225tigahhh
You can always cover it all in shag carpet and 20 years down the road the new owner will discover a treasure of old wood floors some idiot covered with carpet.
But I discourage covering or removing them.
I have 50 year old oak floors I'll have refinished in the near future. They are hard as iron but showing age.
25 years ago I paid a fellow +/- $500 to refinish around 500 square feet of the same type of oak floors (was my first house). He did a great job.
I think I used the guy that maintained the floors at our local Catholic school. I knew he at least had an idea of what needed to be done and how to do it. Might be a good place to start to find an inexpensive hire.
But I discourage covering or removing them.
I have 50 year old oak floors I'll have refinished in the near future. They are hard as iron but showing age.
25 years ago I paid a fellow +/- $500 to refinish around 500 square feet of the same type of oak floors (was my first house). He did a great job.
I think I used the guy that maintained the floors at our local Catholic school. I knew he at least had an idea of what needed to be done and how to do it. Might be a good place to start to find an inexpensive hire.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 2:23 pm to 225tigahhh
You can only sand hardwood floors so many times before you have to replace them. I would hold off on doing it until you really need to.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 2:51 pm to TimeOutdoors
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You can only sand hardwood floors so many times before you have to replace them. I would hold off on doing it until you really need to.
Real hardwood floors can be refinished many times. If it's engineered hardwood floors, you are looking at 2-3 times max.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 3:21 pm to 225tigahhh
I have 70 year old oak floors in 3 rooms of my house. They are stained and waxed. I also have some polyurethaned oak floor and even one room with prefinished.
I would be perfectly happy if they were all waxed. Are they as shiny? No, but look pretty good when freshly waxed and buffed. Do they show scratches like polyurethane? No - big plus in my book. I like the slightly dull/old look. I don’t wax them but every decade or so and they are holding up fine.
I would be perfectly happy if they were all waxed. Are they as shiny? No, but look pretty good when freshly waxed and buffed. Do they show scratches like polyurethane? No - big plus in my book. I like the slightly dull/old look. I don’t wax them but every decade or so and they are holding up fine.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 7:38 pm to 225tigahhh
If you're not afraid of a bit of work you can do this yourself. You can rent the big sander for get the brunt of the floors sanded and also the edge sander to get all the tight stuff along baseboards, closets, small nooks and such. You will also need a real good scraper to get the corners taken down.
There's tons of u-tube videos on finishing floors if you want to see what it takes.
I did mine about 30 years ago and they are still looking damn good, especially for the amount of time that has passed. I did sand good, did a very good clean-up to get all dust off and did 3 coats of a top of the line semi-gloss poly to finish them off.
I don't have any little kids and the only pet we have is a cat, so not much wear and tear with pets.
There's tons of u-tube videos on finishing floors if you want to see what it takes.
I did mine about 30 years ago and they are still looking damn good, especially for the amount of time that has passed. I did sand good, did a very good clean-up to get all dust off and did 3 coats of a top of the line semi-gloss poly to finish them off.
I don't have any little kids and the only pet we have is a cat, so not much wear and tear with pets.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 10:16 am to gumbo2176
Do this, not hard at all. The biggest hassle is the amount of dust it generates so go to the extreme to keep the dust out of other areas of the house. Also wear a hair net when applying your stain/top coat. Those hairs will show up and drive a perfectionist crazy!
Posted on 2/25/25 at 8:56 pm to Wolfmanjack
The rental equipment is garbage and if you don’t know what you are doing you can really mess them up and the edger work you need to know how to set the edger up and how to use it. You could prob find local hard wood guys that moonlight on weekends for 2k. Got the NWFA website and look in your area I know a guy but he is in Mississippi he won’t come that far for 500 ² feet. What city are you in?
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