Restoring Wood Flooring

Carpets can be a convenient way to cover up some flooring issues but they can hide some truly gorgeous floors. We just bought our house and previous owners had covered up the original wood flooring with carpet. The carpet glue has been stuck to these boards for years.

We started by removing the carpets and then began the long and arduous task of removing the carpet glue with razor scrapers after soaking it down with Butyl Cellosolve.

Then the floor sander that was rented was brought in and smoothed out the boards. This left a nice uniform look to the entire house.

We then applied a light stain which made all the various rooms with their various shades of wood from differentiating levels of wear to come together as one solid shade.

Finish that off with a nice finishing gloss coat... Or four, and we have ourselves some gorgeous looking floors.