Sanding Laminate Flooring

My husband got a deal on it through a contact at work.

Sanding laminate flooring. The best way to refinish the floor is to strip off the remaining factory shine and re coat it with a floor sealer and high gloss floor finish. Never sand it or the look of the floor will be ruined. Most diyers can complete laminate floor installation in one day. A couple of years ago we had laminate flooring installed in our kitchen.

Hardwood floors can be sanded stained and coated with polyurethane. That means no sanding. Use a pry bar to pry up the molding where the floor meets the wall to examine the cross section of the flooring boards. Let the surface dry for 30 60 minutes before applying any coats of paint.

The hardwood design on most laminate planks is basically stamped on and coated with super hard floor finish and trying to fix it with a sander is like trying to fix a painting with an eraser. A laminate floor may look like hardwood but it isn t and you can t treat it the same way. Wood flooring is real wood durable but not quite as durable as a quality laminate floor. Dip a foam brush in the laminate primer and apply a thin coat over the surface in long strokes working from the back to the front of the room.

Coat the surface with a layer of laminate primer. The laminate runs from our entryway up the main hall through the breakfast area and into the kitchen. A laminate floor should be treated like a no wax kitchen floor. Perstorp a swedish company that has been producing flooring since 1923 developed laminate flooring in 1977 and began selling it under the brand name pergo.

Laminate floors are very popular in high trafficked areas like kitchens. Planks can be cut with a hand saw circular saw or flooring cutter and most laminate flooring comes in planks that simply snap together with a tongue. I was so excited to replace the vinyl flooring with the new laminate. Laminate flooring is a versatile synthetic flooring product made from several layers of material fused laminated together in planks or tiles.

Laminate flooring cannot be sanded and refinished like real wood flooring and would have to be replaced when worn out or scratched.