Y’all, I used to be so decided to see some main progress in our bed room suite that I used to be on my arms and knees till 10:30 final night time staining the flooring. I used to be decided. So let me again up a bit and inform you the whole lot.
In a publish final week, I expressed a little bit of frustration with the sanding course of. A difficulty with dwelling in a small-ish metropolis is that there aren’t an entire lot of choices on the subject of hiring out a job like sanding hardwood flooring. Clearly, that’s not a job you need to hand over to a random handyman that you just discovered on Nextdoor. So the flooring firm I used to put in the flooring really helpful an individual for the job.
He began final Thursday, and he was such a pleasant man and has clearly been doing this all of this life as a result of he had a ton of data concerning the course of, the merchandise, the right methods, and so forth. I may inform he’s actually been doing this for many years, and has in all probability been utilizing the identical gear for the reason that day he began again in 1850 or so. 😀 His large drum sander seemed prefer it was being held along with duct tape and hope. So it was clear that he’s had a number of expertise, however my goodness, was he sluggish! (The age factor in all probability has rather a lot to do with that.)
Anyway, I anticipated it to be a two-day undertaking, with him ending on Friday in order that I may have the weekend to stain and polyurethane. That didn’t occur. So I used to be sort of a bundle of nerves on Friday and over the weekend. I simply wished the job accomplished.
So think about my pleasure when he instructed me at 1:00pm yesterday afternoon that he was nearly completed. I instantly thought, “Oh good! I’ll nonetheless have loads of time to go to the shop, buy my provides, and get the flooring stained in the present day!” As a result of when somebody tells me they’re nearly completed with one thing, I think about that they’re about half-hour to an hour away from ending, proper? Improper.
He completed up at 6:00pm. 😀 However y’all, I used to be nonetheless decided. As quickly as he walked out the door at 6:00pm, I headed to Lowe’s to select up the provides. I bought dwelling at 7:30, after which debated whether or not or not I ought to begin then or wait till in the present day. I wished to make use of the very same course of and merchandise that I utilized in the remainder of the home in order that I’d have one of the best probability at having the identical end result. And in the remainder of the home, I used wooden conditioner on the entire ground earlier than staining it. I had no thought how lengthy it will take to place wooden conditioner on nearly 500 sq. toes of flooring, after which as soon as that went down, I’d must stain the ground inside two hours. In order that meant that if I began final night time, I’d have to complete final night time. And I additionally had no thought how lengthy it will take to stain all of that flooring. I used to be afraid I is likely to be up till 1:00am, however I used to be so decided to get it accomplished that I made a decision to go for it.
Sadly, I used to be in such a rush that I didn’t even cease to take footage of the freshly sanded flooring earlier than getting began. That is the one image I’ve of the sanded flooring, however I took this earlier than they had been utterly sanded.
So at about 7:45 final night time, I had all of my provides unloaded from the van, and I used to be able to get began. I began with the wooden conditioner, which I utilized by hand, on my arms and knees, utilizing a staining sponge. I began on the far wall of the bed room and labored my manner in direction of the French doorways.
I bought that completed about 8:45. I gave myself about quarter-hour to verify on Matt, take Cooper out, after which began the staining about 9:00pm. Making use of the stain took longer than the wooden conditioner, but it surely truly went quicker than I assumed it will. As soon as once more, I began on the far wall of the bed room and utilized the stain on my arms and knees utilizing a staining sponge. This took longer as a result of as soon as I utilized the stain to a number of rows of flooring, I had to return and wipe off the surplus.
However I completed up proper at 10:30 final night time. Clearly, the ground isn’t completed but. I nonetheless want so as to add a minimum of two coats of polyurethane. I’ll in all probability do three.
And proper now, the ground seems to be very grainy. That’s simply the character of purple oak hardwood flooring.
However the magic will occur with the primary coat of polyurethane as a result of I’ll add stain to that first coat, similar to I did in the remainder of the home, and that may give the ground a extra uniform look.
The grain will nonetheless present, so the ground gained’t look utterly uniform. I do, in any case, need it to nonetheless seem like actual hardwood flooring.
However the first coat of polyurethane and stain combination will even out a number of the grain, and also will give the flooring extra depth of shade.
I’m hoping to get all coats of polyurethane on the flooring in the present day, which implies that by the top of in the present day, the flooring ought to be utterly completed!
The lighting within the closet is so poor proper now, so that you’ll simply must belief me that it actually does match the remainder of the flooring. 😀 That tough line within the doorway is only a shadow.
And that shiny spot in the midst of the ground is only a reflection from the one solitary mild on this room.
Anyway, I’m simply ecstatic to lastly be seeing some severe progress!! And now, the undertaking is in my arms alone. So from right here on out, if the progress isn’t quick sufficient for my satisfaction, the one particular person I can get annoyed with is myself. 😀
If all goes as deliberate, these flooring ought to be accomplished by the top of the day.
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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