Floor Sanding Your Floors With Nufloors

Many wooden floor materials can be sanded, including wooden floor boards, parquetry, cork tiles, particleboard and strandboard, prefinished wooden tile and engineered wooden flooring, and many beautiful old wooden floors have been found to be suitable for sanding and polishing after the previous coverings have been removed.

Wooden floors are usually angle sanded with 40 grit to level out any differences in height between the wooden floor boards, and their flooring specialist will then sand the woodgrain multiple times with various grits of sandpaper including 60 grit, or 80 grit to the medium stage of sanding. The edges are also sanded ready for the fine sanding stage.

If there are any gaps that are required to be filled this is then completed. These gaps are identified in the initial quote. NuFloors do not routinely fill the wooden floors as many customers like the 'rustic' look. The wooden floor is then left to dry depending on how much filler has been used, and their flooring specialist will then fine sand and disc your floor ready for the first coat.

At this stage of the floor sanding process, the floor cannot be walked across as the exposed wooden floor needs to be protected from contamination. Even opening a door to peek inside can allow a certain amount of dust to blow in and onto the wooden floor. A sealer is applied, followed shortly by the second coat, and NuFloors’ floor sanding equipment is designed to keep harmful dust to a minimum at all stages of the floor sanding process.

If you stand on the polyurethane that has not quite cured not only will you have a sticky substance stuck to your foot, but you risk putting a footprint or dust in your wooden floor. Fixing this can be costly for you as the customer. The floor sanders will return the following day to apply the third coat. You may walk on your wooden floor 24 hours after the final coat has been applied.

It is recommended not to put furniture in the area once the floor sanding is complete for seven days, and NuFloors recommend putting small pieces of felt onto the feet of your furniture, which will prevent any damage to the polished floor. It is recommended that mats and carpets are put back after the seven days as they can leave marks or imprints on the new polished timber floors.

NuFloors are expanding their services to include tag and testing as with the new legislation everything has to be tested and tagged every three months. NuFloors are very Health & Safety focused so will be offering this service to their customers while they are on the job.

For more information on flooring Auckland, floor sanding Auckland and parquet flooring NZ please go to https://www.nufloors.co.nz .