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Anyone ever tackled this? Whats the skill level? I'm looking at kitchen, living and dining rooms, and 1 room on the 2nd floor, and the 3rd floor bedroom as well. We are about to purchase a home that was built in 1940. It has original wood flooring of course throughout, but carpet covers most of it, especially on the master floor. From what I am reading, the only difficult thing is going to be patching holes if this home had radiator heating, which 99% of them do being that old in the Northeast. Basically pull up carpet, clean up, rent a push buffer, and stain, repeat.....Granted I haven't moved in yet or pulled the carpet, but I'm willing to bet it will need refinishing. The 2nd floor has 2 of the bedrooms with the original wood, and it looks great. Thanks in advance.
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Its not really that hard. Just alot of work in prepping. My uncle did it to my grandmothers house from the 50's. It came out nice. It surprising to see how well the original wood held up to the years. -
Just redid the floors in my rent house in Arl after last tenant move out and trashed the carpet.
I bought the house from a flipper and he all ready had carpet down. Fast forward several years, I have to decide to replace carpet, tile, or ?????
Pull back carpet to find the origional oak floors.
When I pulled up the tack strips there were only a couple areas that needed some putty work. Make sure to get a stainable putty.
He had all kinds if paint overspray & mud droppings he carpeted over.
So I spent about 30hrs sanding everything down.
I used a square floor sander. Used screens where it wasn't too bad to try and not go through the finish, & used some aggressive paper everywhere else.
Secret is to move the sander around fairly quick. If you don't, the old finish gums up on the sandpaper. I finished it off with a 160 grit as I had to go a little further down on the wood than I wanted and wanted to leave the wood pores open to accept the finish as deep as possible.
On about 900sf I ended up using 8 gallons of finish. I just used a satin clear to keep the look of the natural wood. I didn't want it stained.
I was MORE than happy with the finished results & my new tenant LOVES the new floor (and is taking care of them too!!)
I can email you before and after pics if you want. No way to post them.
Donsvo came and drank some beer and helped sand for a little too.
To answer your question: if you are a mechanically inclined person who pays attention to detail you can do it. You will find quickly however when you start sanding around baseboards @ door frames why they charge what they do!! Fairly easy job, LOTS of manual labor!!!
Feel free to hit me up with any questions I might be able to help with.
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