BedStuy Reno: March 2008
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March 6, 2008
Sanderson Files: First Finish Coat in the Kitchen, Sanding in the Hallway
Ok, here are shots of the first coat of Waterlox going down on the floor, and it looking quite orange. We were hoping for a very light clear coat, but it's looking orange.
Also, shots of the lower level hallway (the level on which we are building our kitchen), which changed quite dramatically after the first pass of the sander! This had been covered in carpet, linoleum tile, and finally there was this mess and remnant of mastic. The boards cleaned up so well, and what is great is that these are the subfloor boards we have throughout all the hallways of the house. Which means of course, that when we get to it, we can make them all look this nice.
March 5, 2008
Sanderson Files: The Kitchen Floor, Second Pass
Some images of the next pass over the salvage pine boards with a finer grain paper. After the first pass, the boards still had some remnants of their old top layer, but with the next pass, they really started to look nice and clean, really light too.
March 4, 2008
Sanderson Files: The Kitchen Floor, First Pass
A long long time ago, G and I laid down the salvage pine planks we had gotten from friends of ours in Carrol Gardens in what would be our future kitchen. The tradeoff was sweet - we got the boards for free in exchange for removing them ourselves. We were really pysched, and we finally installed them in out place on New Year's Eve, 2006-2007, and you can read about it here:
http://www.brownstoner.com/bedstuy_reno/archives/2007/01/le_nouveau_plan_1.html
http://www.brownstoner.com/bedstuy_reno/archives/2007/01/le_nouveau_plan_2.html
One year and change later, we have finally cleaned up said planks. How do they look? Awesome.
We borrowed our neighbor's drum sander and edger, and went over the floor for a first pass with some incredibly heavy duty sand paper to get the first layer up. G worked the sander, I worked the edger. It wasall really loud and slow-going. We wore earplugs and respirators, and being all locked in like that makes for an intense experience. It was sort of like being inside an jet engine for a day. But what really motivated us was how good the boards began to look.
After a first pass with the super-rough grit paper, we followed up with finer and finer grit papers, eventually finishing with 150 grit paper. The pictures above show the floor during and after the first pass with the super-rough paper.