My Kitchen Project

Did you get your sander today

brckwlt wrote:Your not hijacking anything dan, thanx for the picture

i just picked up the square floor sander from lowes about 30 min ago and did a test spot and it seems to work pretty good. altough I must of missed a staple and already damaged a peice of sandpaper

from what I can tell from my sample area is that the floors wont look perfect because of the way the house has settled over the years. some boards are pretty uneven. and I don't know if ill get all of the dark spots out, but we like what we see so far. we wet down the sample area and it looks pretty good to us

brckwlt wrote:i just picked up the square floor sander from lowes about 30 min ago and did a test spot and it seems to work pretty good. altough I must of missed a staple and already damaged a peice of sandpaper

from what I can tell from my sample area is that the floors wont look perfect because of the way the house has settled over the years. some boards are pretty uneven. and I don't know if ill get all of the dark spots out, but we like what we see so far. we wet down the sample area and it looks pretty good to us

Just figure that is what some would call character. Heck, some will take a new piece of furnature, smash with a chain, drill worm holes to get an old look, that is in style. I myself like the look of an old corner cuboard with wavey glass over any new piece of furnature. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

You might try to use some wood bleaching product on the dark stains/spots...
http://www.easy2diy.com/cm/easy/diy_ht_index.asp? ... d=35720398
Varathane is the rust-oleum product...
http://www.easy2diy.com/cm/easy/diy_dv_index.asp? ... d=35721042
Some more help...
http://antiquerestorers.com/Articles/jeff/using_w ... bleach.htm
http://www.craftsman-style.info/finishing/007-bleaching.htm

AA130FIREMAN wrote:Just figure that is what some would call caracter. Heck, some will take a new piece of furnature, smash with a chain, drill worm holes to get an old look, that is in style. I myself like the look of an old corner cuboard with wavey glass over any new piece of furnature. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

i agree I love the character in our old house. I wouldnt have it any other way.

CapeCoaler wrote:You might try to use some wood bleaching product on the dark stains/spots...

thank you for all of the useful information

I also love the old character in my house,wait a minute,that's my wife

brckwlt wrote:

AA130FIREMAN wrote:Just figure that is what some would call caracter. Heck, some will take a new piece of furnature, smash with a chain, drill worm holes to get an old look, that is in style. I myself like the look of an old corner cuboard with wavey glass over any new piece of furnature. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

i agree I love the character in our old house. I wouldnt have it any other way.

CapeCoaler wrote:You might try to use some wood bleaching product on the dark stains/spots...

thank you for all of the useful information

sanded the floors down today and just got done putting on the poly. we also put on door handles earlier today. I have to touch up around the walls and cabinets yet. I applied the poly with brush type thing lowes told me to use

God does perfect--sometimes we humans over-rate our abilities--sooooo,you're bringing out the natural look of the wood--OUTSTANDING I love how it's turned out--give it plenty of drying time!! old houses have old floors & I find them beautious you guys can be real proud

brckwlt wrote:i just picked up the square floor sander from lowes about 30 min ago and did a test spot and it seems to work pretty good. altough I must of missed a staple and already damaged a peice of sandpaper

from what I can tell from my sample area is that the floors wont look perfect because of the way the house has settled over the years. some boards are pretty uneven. and I don't know if ill get all of the dark spots out, but we like what we see so far. we wet down the sample area and it looks pretty good to us

Nice job on the floor...
How is the helper holding up thru the project...

CapeCoaler wrote:Nice job on the floor...
How is the helper holding up thru the project...

she is more like the evil tyrant supervisor. She is always demanding I do this or do that and do it now and get it done fast. She had me drill the holes for the door pulls right after I got done vacuuming the floor for the second time right before I wanted to start to put the poly on. Needless to say I had to vacuum again ..

brckwlt,you send my wife home immediately

my plumber should be here in a few minutes

Then I can finally have water in my kitchen again

The plumber came and hooked up the sink this morning. Right now we are slowly putting away all of the stuff we took out of the old cabinets and putting them in the new cabs. I still have to put another coat or two of poly on the floors yet. I will put another coat of poly on this evening once we are done putting things away.

Make sure you cut that poly in under the toe kicks...
You might have fixed that by now...
just lettin' ya know...

yes I will ... and no I havent yet. Once again my wife couldnt wait... so she started putting everything in the cabinets and told me to wait till tonight to put the poly on again ...