Sanding floors. Advice needed please

Hoseman

Hi, Im thinking about sanding 2 rooms in my house and wanted some advice.

One option is to hire the equipment via HSS and do it ourselves. Is this relatively easy to do? What equipment do I need? Apart from a big sander do I also need a small one to do edges? What is the mess like? The picture on the HSS website shows a sander that has a vacuum cleaner type bag so Im assuming this will help with some of the dust.

Another option we've considered is getting someone to sand the floor while we will actually treat it. We live in London if anyone has any recommendations and what sort of price are we roughly looking at? One room is approx. 10 sqm.

Thanks

diable

HSS do a deal sometimes for a weekends hire, it can be done fairly easily just ask them to supply you with a load of bags and various grades of sanding belts and remember to fit these securely as you will go through them pretty quickly. Even with the bags there will be dust.

Have a look here,

Before,



After,

diable

Oh and remove any tac's and if there any protruding nail heads bang them down.

Hoseman

Thanks Diable. Did you do anything about the gaps in between the floorboards? The rooms are on the first floor so just wondering if its likely to make the rooms cold during the winter.

diable

Just left them as they where and didn't even treat them for the "rustic" ** look.




** Rustic = Lazy

Tall_Tone

These will cost slightly more than the machines from HSS but will make life much easier. There is even a "How to do it" video on their website.

http://www.floorsanderrental.co.uk/

TT

diable

Tall_Tone wrote: »

These will cost slightly more than the machines from HSS but will make life much easier. There is even a "How to do it" video on their website.

http://www.floorsanderrental.co.uk/

TT

Love the stereo headsets they are using.

cyclonebri1

It is and will be messy, full stop.

Yes, get a decent belt sander with a few spare belts, they go back if you don't need them assuming hire.

You do need a decent edge sander and grit to suit.

End result is all in the refinish

Hoseman

Thanks for all the advice.

diable wrote: »

Just left them as they where and didn't even treat them for the "rustic" ** look.

** Rustic = Lazy

Sounds good to me

Jaynne

Those Bona machines are the dogs b*******. We used them doing ours and they're way better than the HSS crap. You will need the main sander, edger and corner sander (its a small palm sander and you may have one already). I needed one of those anyway so it was cheaper for me to just by a corner sander for £20.

The dust isn't so bad with the Bona machine compared to the HSS type ones I'd previously used but realistically you are going to be dusting everywhere for a week afterwards no matter how well you seal the door.

loracan1

Jaynne wrote: »

realistically you are going to be dusting everywhere for [STRIKE]a week [/STRIKE]months afterwards no matter how well you seal the door.

It's still worth doing though, did my bedroom about 13 years ago, gave it a thorough clean and reseal last Christmas and it looked freshly done..I can't say it looked like new since the house is a bit elderly.