How To Preserve Old Wood Floors

Tips don t use a screen and recoat on floors with wax finishes.

How to preserve old wood floors.

Over the years lynn s company has restored or refinished historic or just plain old hardwood floors in buildings ranging from simple homes to the white house. Assess the damage to your floors. The new finish will simply preserve the damage in a coat of polyurethane and do nothing to repair the wood. How to clean preserve a hardwood floor.

Begin in a back corner of the room plotting a path that will have you end up near an exit pour a small s shaped amount of wood floor polish onto the floor. Read more about how to restore dry wood. Like many people you may be apprehensive about installing hardwood flooring but if it s all maintenance all the time that you fear it s time to put. If you only have some minor scratches and dings or a dull finish you might be able to simply buff and add a new coat of varnish.

Several months ago i wrote about one of my favorite homemade mixtures for reviving new life into old dry wood and in particular wooden items that have some water spots. Homeowners who have old floors should not expect them to look like brand new floors according to sprigg lynn of universal floors in washington d c. The right oil will soak into the wood s pores keeping the wood strong and slowing absorption of water that can cause rot a couple coats of oil can protect wood for years but this depends greatly on the oil and environment so check regularly. Polish wood floors to a shine.

Oil whenever the wood feels dry. Even if you have carpeting you might have wood flooring hiding underneath them and not know it. For us refinishing the hardwood floors in our home meant dealing with all those things. My post from last fall focused on an old wooden folding table that i wanted to perk up and put to use again in my.

Especially after years of foot traffic dropped items scratches from bedposts fires and floods have left behind all sorts of damage. If you live in an old house there s a good chance that you have wood floors. Hardwood floor restoration can be very challenging.