Floor sanding

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Have you done this yourself before?

What tips can you give me????

Hire someone! Very dusty and harder than it looks.

I did most of my house .... you need a drum sander and then a different sander for doing the edges.

When we did the last room - dc nursery - I got someone in. It is backbreaking dusty work and the sanders can be expensive to hire, and you need to buy sanding discs. I have don't it once and I won't be doing it again!

To save money I just got the firm to sand the floor and oiled it myself (osmo oils are amazing).

How much have you got to do?

If you can afford it get the professionals in. They have better machines and hardly leave any dust.
Even my DIY neighbour paid someone - having done some himself before he had found it harder than he expected.

Is it a suspended floor? If so, sanding is a bad idea. the most professional advice is to restore, not sand. Sanding takes away as much as a third to half the thickness of the boards and hugely weakens them.

Here is some good advice. it doesn't mention sanding weakening the boards, but I have read it many times elsewhere.

www.theflooringgroup.co.uk/timber-floors/

It's literally the floor boards of the house. Just ripped up some mingjng old laminate.

We are putting it on the market so don't want to spend loads...

Ok, but be careful not to sand them so thin that they become weak and springy. It's very easy to do. You could always paint them to give them a shabby chic look, which can be very classy.

Lift the machine before you get to the edges, you'll make ridges on the floor if you stop still for a moment. I sanded my edges by hand to protect the skirting boards.

Make sure you nail down all the nails, use a centre punch so they go slightly under the timber.

Then they won't tear the sanding machine xx