Oak Hardwood Floor Quick Fix

RE: Oak Hardwood Floor Quick Fix Post By firemedic90 (Guest Post) (07/24/2005) My husband and I bought a house built in 1919. We ripped up the old golden sculpted carpet in the living and dining room. As a novice, my husband sanded them with a commercial sander. I was almost due with our third child, so I did not sand. Since then I have refinished the office, and two bedrooms, a sunroom, and the hallway upstairs. It is definately worth it and not nearly the work you'd think it is. Do it!! I am so happy with ours...If you need tips, just ask! I've learned alot. RE: Oak Hardwood Floor Quick Fix Post by Diamondee (125) | (05/02/2005) Contact rent a sander with a vacuum attached, our friends did this,,,,the floors are great now..you will not regret it. took a weekend to do 4 large rooms. RE: Oak Hardwood Floor Quick Fix Post by alobarbear (25) | (05/02/2005) Contact I completely agree with Katie. sanding and refinishing is a mess (but not a huge one with the proper equipment). BUT what great floors you will have. A few days hard work will give you great floors for 20 or more years. Putting something (Paint? varnish?) on the existing floors will look horrible!!! You would probably have to carpet over them or sand them anyway. RE: Oak Hardwood Floor Quick Fix Post by Katie A. (146) | (05/02/2005) Blog! | Contact Sanding and properly finishing the floors would be a huge mess . . . but soooooo worth it! At about the time your house was built carpeting was new and exciting and "so much better" than old-fashioned wood floors. Builders continued to put down hardwood floors, but because they wanted to be modern, they didn't even finish the surfaces, but just plunked down carpet on top of it. Please, please, please take this opportunity to finish your floors. If you want the look of wood (and it sounds like you do) you will not be sorry.