My husband and I are planning to have our floors sanded and refinished in the next few weeks. We’ve hired a contractor to do it, but now find ourselves faced with having to decide how to finish them.
\nThe apt is pre-war. The floors are probably oak and currently have acrylic poly on them.
\nOur contractor recommends that we use an oil based poly, which I’m fine with. But we also need to pick a stain. My cousin, who is an architect, seems to think that Minwax stain is terrible, and that we should use some high end stain that she uses for her clients. Our contractor uses Minwax, but said he’d use whatever we wanted to. I feel torn between the ease of Minwax (which I’ve never heard anything negative about up until now) and trying to find another brand which is supposedly better.
\nDoes anyone have experience (negative or positive) with Minwax or other stains? Since this is probably our only chance to redo the floors, I’d like to it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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