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Sanding and refinishing my hardwood floors Vs fitting Engineered wood
Anonymous user 9 March 2024 - 2.47 PM
I live in a 90sqr meter apartment with traditional hardwood floors. We really need to do something with it since it shows plenty of scuffs and different colours from different previous owners. I am thinking on 2 options:
Option 1- Sanding and refinishing
I've got a quote for sanding and refinishing however I heard not good things about doing this while living in the apartment. I also have 2 small dogs and I am not sure if the fumes would be terrible for them. I have been told that after treatment of an area, it can be used for 3 days!
Option 2- Fit engineered wood floor
I believe this is a is more expensive option and although it looks beautiful, underneath the current boards we have pipes, cables and who knows what else. If something happens, they would need to open the engineered wood floor up and I am not sure if I would need to replace the whole floor again!
Can someone please help me here? What are the pros and cons?
Thanks!
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You have 2 small dogs do not under any circumstance use a real wood floor the upkeep will be immense, i would highly recommend a quality laminate these have little to no maintenance where as all real woods do.
Hi, If you sand and refinish you floors, with the machine today with the hoovers they have it is not that dusty, also if you give it a coat of hardwax oil you can walk on it after 8 hours but you can't lay any rugs on it for 3 days as it needs to breve to fully harden.
You could lay a engineered floor and if you get a good one which clicks together you can take it up and then relay it, if you do need to get to pipes etc.
or you could get a good laminate such as a quick step and do the same with that.
Once you sand the floor back to good health and for reference, modern machines are about 98% dust free. Because of your pets, waxing and oiling is out of the question because of the maintenance needed by claw damage. If you have 3 coats of a reputable lacquer the floor will stay good. Every wood floor needs maintenance, and maybe every other year you can get a buff and coat to make your floor stay looking at its best and less likely the need for a full resand
Blanchon do odorless lacquer with low voc's. I've used it with people with an apparent super sense of smell who really needed this. So good for pets sense of smell also
Engineered and laminated floors can be pulled up and relayed if you need to get to the sub floor. You can also sand engineered floors just for your reference.
Hope that helps :)
