I say ‘closet transition’ because I’m not sure what else to call it. You can see the painted boards, that is where the closet was. There was a wall up between the closet and the bedroom. So when we took the wall out we had to fix the floor to give it a natural flow into the bedroom. Brent ripped up all the closet boards, cut into the bedroom floor boards, filled the gap and gave it a natural flow. It was a TON of work, but it really paid off. The floors turned out beautifully.
Brent rented a Random Orbital U-Sand sander from the local Hardware Hank for $60/day.
He sanded for over 7 hours! I went up to see how he was doing 2 hours into it and he said he almost fell asleep it was so boring! I took over for a while. The boards in the closet were the worst because they were painted – it took for-ever to get them sanded down! The rest of it went pretty quick.
Sanding finished. At this point he used some cleaner and wiped down a few spots to see how smooth the floor would look once finished and we noticed a lot of scratches still in it. This was from all the plaster that we ripped off the walls and shoveled across the floor. We contemplated either sanding more, renting the machine for another day ($$) or just leaving it and call it ‘character’. We decided to leave it.
Pretty. Brent calls them ‘rustic’.
Amazing difference.
The next day we put the polyurethane on. Slap it on, wait two hours for it to dry, again, and again and again.
After 4 coats of poly, we sanded on our hands and knees to get a nice smooth finish. Believe it or not we cant even see those scratches from shoveling the plaster. I’m glad we decided to just leave it alone.
Floor complete. We decided not to stain the floors a color and keep it natural. The sun will do the staining for us over time.
I will post a better picture of the finished floors later. He has been working on installing the new door and trim.