They did turn out nice. You worked very hard at it. I appreciate a man that put so much time and effort into this sort of thing. Just about anything at all can be saved.
Nice. I was trying to guess the stain color, I was thinking my mom's favorite special walnut by minwax but heck that was thirty five years ago and I don't know if they even make that color anymore. I looked until I found the color in the thread. Espresso. Beautiful. I like the dark, dark stain like this. The fifties house I bought, man I don't think the stain was a real color to tell you the truth. It was like an awful red. Ugh! One day I said that's it, can't look at this anymore. Painted those bad boys white. Removed all hardware and it turned out they varnished the hardware, ugh! I soaked the hardware and it turns out they were 316 stainless steel handles. They shine like diamonds. Don't you just love admiring the hard work after you're done and accomplished the impossible. So satisfying. Good luck with your house. Still working on mine but mine was in some real bad shape. I figure this house will kill me before I get it done. Oh yeah, and there's nothing we can't do once we put our mind to it. Heck, I learned masonry at 63 and I"m an old broad.
We pulled the carpet up in our home we just bough. We lifted a corner and got so excited because we saw beautiful floors but the high traffic areas were stained black and it was just bare wood like water damage had taken the finish off the floors. We had a contractor come in and sand and lighten the black but we did get it to where I could have it stained the light color I wanted it was just expensive. Carpet is just the worst idea ever.
Thank you so much for posting this! I am right in the middle of repairing my wood floor in my 1954 home and this has been so helpful and encouraging! I can do this!
Great job! I honestly didn’t think those floors were going to look that good. I see you had an Indian Lake shirt on, do you live near there? We are on Raquette Lake. Slainte, DC🍀
Wow!! The floor turned out beautifully perfect! I have the same pine wood floor and this inspired me to do my floor!! Thank you for sharing your Journey.
I have the same heart pine floors and casework in my house. I put a lot of sweat equity in mine too but the end result made it worth it. And you are correct, replacing it would be a LOT more expensive. Great job!
I need to do my 1955 floors. They have cupping as well. This looks amazing and ya know even if mine don't end up perfect, I am fine with flaws...gives some character. The fact that I have floors from 1955 that can look beautiful again in 2023 well 🎉🥳 I think that is pretty amazing actually.
Just found your channel. This is my first video to watch. Such a beautiful outcome! You worked really hard and it shows. I enjoyed watching. Thank you!
Thank you for taping up the fireplace. Had a DIY couple near here sanded their floors and didn't tape it up and all that dust got all up in the chimney and a few months later when they lit it the chimney caught fire. They were able to get it out quick enough to save the house but that nice fine wood dust burned real easy and quick.
For someone who may be looking at this in the future, Zinsser sells a two part wood bleach. It comes in packages that are too small and may be expensive for doing a full floor, but I’ve used it when refinishing furniture and it’s useful. It’s probably easily accessible chemicals, think for sure it’s peroxide and an activator, but if you have a project like this might be worth investigating. I haven’t gotten that far yet but thought I’d leave this for someone who might be investigating doing this. I have wood floors too but the finish is good except for a couple marks and I probably won’t get there for a year or so.
Thank goodness I found this video. My floors looked just like that if not worse. The pet stains are over powering even after trying several cleaners. I'll try the Peroxide and see how that works.
i had a table with water damage where the legs were all black at the bottom. i mixed up wood bleach in a cup (no, not the regular bleach) and sat the black legs in it. they now look perfect! next time i would suggest trying that.
They sell wood bleach you know. It really works great after floor sanded. So you won't be need to sand floor thin. Just need to sand the finish off. I like to be different i like stain floors with black stain then sand off and then use royal blue wood stain on my floors looks great with the black wood grain of oak. Really great look on floor. The blue is really beautiful on wood grain.
Agree. All of these videos seemed to think they need to feel empty time where they're doing something repetitive and time-consuming like sanding the floors with loud busy cheerful music and it's unbearably loud sometimes. The sanding was pretty loud too so my suggestion would be just mute it all a little bit and either speed up the video until you're through standing or just do one of those wipes across the screen that lets everybody know a lot of time has passed and get to the last stage. Otherwise a great video
I really appreciate the fact that you took the time to video all this but at the same time I get that it was definitely a lot if work nevermind the recording of it..but I was disappointed when it came up that you lost the rest of the footage no disrespect at all I was curious on what you did use on the finishing parts ... thanks again for taking the time.. one quick tip I found out by accident was that during the holiday I left a bag by the garbage bag by the door not sure what leaked out but when I got back someone already took the garbage out and it left a really bad stain to the point where it took of some of the stain off .but I usually like to keep a water bottle with dawn and water making my own well I other products would not remove the stain but the watered down dawn after staying it on and using a little scrubbing pad just a little and washing it off with a wet clean cloth much to my surprise the stain came out dawn work on a lot of things so I am happy about that but the floor is in need of a light sanding and a redo that is why I was watching. But I can never find a video on a light colored floor ugg.. hope the tip helps just don't leave the dawn on too long rinse and wipe it soaked it up right away should work out good ..I've used it on put door teak and works like a charm ❤
Do I have questions :P We bought a house prior to the auction, We are dead set on saving the hardwood floors throughout the home. Like this video, they had carpet and pets over the years, So step one would be sanding them all down first then cleaning them with the peroxide. We also will be renting the machines. So rent them on a Friday giving us the weekend with the floor sanders, I have zero experience running :) It might take longer but from what I have learned so far the Orbital is easier to handle. Step one? step two? and on would be? Oh, and we are 60 and 74 years old :) After three years of health issues, we just can not afford to hire anyone. I hope to see some positive replies. Thank you!
Next time you rent those tiny sanders try adding some weights on top, second when you edge the machine is made to go left to right. I use hydrogen peroxide on all pet stains as well
I think the "blonde spots" and remaining stains would be deceptively shallow, less than 1mm, and another run with the drum sander would have removed them and levelled the floor. No chance of skimming that with the orbital. Unfortunately, the stains show right through even that dark wood stain.
Absolutely - cutting deeper with sander is the way! Peroxide bleaching or some acids can hide stains a bit, but the correct way is to really remove the top stained and oxidized layer. Using that big fat drum sander that can take lot of material. There are few spots where is still visible original "orange" tint of previous finish because some of boards were more bow or porous. That also need to be sanded .... and not locally with small hand sanders - that create small pits that will pop up next time renovating this floor. Removing old, oxidized and stained material is also important to ensure that new varnish / tint / finish will adhere properly, will not change colour randomly at random spots. Because all these visible various parts of floor also contain chemicals from previous finishes that can react with new finish.....
How did you get the smell out. I’m not as concerned about some discoloration on mine…they’re old. But if I go through all that work and they still smell like pet… I can’t stand that. I would rip them out at that point and put in LVP, but I’m really hoping to salvage mine. But right now the whole house smells like pet urine.
I used straight up 3% peroxide. Poured it straight on the floor after sanding, scrubbed and covered with a soaked paper towel for several hours. Did this several times. Achieved faster and better results keeping it wet with the Peroxide and towel method.
Beautiful! My question is -- what about the urine smell?? Was that present when you started -- and did this make it go away completely? About to move into a 160 year old house with lovely floors except for the past 20 years when I cat lady lived there. Very bad odor - and staining, of course.
Part of the reason it took so long is I found you have to let the floors breathe. I did not stain or seal the floors until the smell had dissipated. Between sanding them and several cleanings I do not smell any urine. Great question
How much does that cost? I have original hardword with mystery stains (and some I know aren't a mystery - mea catta culpa!) and an area where the owner didn't bother to put in more flooring after replacing a wood floor heat return - just filled in the area with crappy board! I need help.
Can't answer you on what it will cost you, I had about $500 between tool rental, stain and cleaning supplies but this was for all the floors not just one room
What color is that? I have few pee stains just like that I'm hoping to use a dark stain like this I'm doing matte since I suck at sanding I have scratches lol.
Thanks I ended up using golden mahogany it looks reddish dark since my floor is red oak oh well you live and learn I'm still working on the polyurethane tonight and tomorrow.
These older homes have wood that is much better than what we get in the stores today. I would guess that as long as there hasn't been termite or water damage you might be okay but you would have to look. I had some gaps as well and just filled in the large gaps with wood putty and left the others alone. Best of luck!
I don't know what rentals are in your area or the cost of supplies however, I think I had about $500 for all the rooms...time is what it will cost you the most. I only needed the machines for a day or two and the rest washing and scrubbing. It can be done, just takes time and no it will not be perfect, just better
Did you have fun hand sanding down the old cat and dog piss? Just because it looks better doesn't mean it's not there. Def. Should've cleaned and disinfected the floors right after sanding.
They might not have but after having to smell them for months they probably were able to cope knowing they were getting rid of the smell once and for all. And I bet they had fun spending the money that they saved!
diy is not for hardwood floors! Edit: the best hardwood floor job you can do as a diy will not even come close to what professional guys are doing, it's the skills, experience and the tools too. just because you "like" the floors after a diy job doesn't mean it actually looks good.
They did turn out nice. You worked very hard at it. I appreciate a man that put so much time and effort into this sort of thing. Just about anything at all can be saved.
Nice. I was trying to guess the stain color, I was thinking my mom's favorite special walnut by minwax but heck that was thirty five years ago and I don't know if they even make that color anymore. I looked until I found the color in the thread. Espresso. Beautiful. I like the dark, dark stain like this. The fifties house I bought, man I don't think the stain was a real color to tell you the truth. It was like an awful red. Ugh! One day I said that's it, can't look at this anymore. Painted those bad boys white. Removed all hardware and it turned out they varnished the hardware, ugh! I soaked the hardware and it turns out they were 316 stainless steel handles. They shine like diamonds. Don't you just love admiring the hard work after you're done and accomplished the impossible. So satisfying. Good luck with your house. Still working on mine but mine was in some real bad shape. I figure this house will kill me before I get it done. Oh yeah, and there's nothing we can't do once we put our mind to it. Heck, I learned masonry at 63 and I"m an old broad.
We pulled the carpet up in our home we just bough. We lifted a corner and got so excited because we saw beautiful floors but the high traffic areas were stained black and it was just bare wood like water damage had taken the finish off the floors. We had a contractor come in and sand and lighten the black but we did get it to where I could have it stained the light color I wanted it was just expensive. Carpet is just the worst idea ever.
Thank you so much for posting this! I am right in the middle of repairing my wood floor in my 1954 home and this has been so helpful and encouraging! I can do this!
Yes you can! and glad it was helpful!
Great job! I honestly didn’t think those floors were going to look that good. I see you had an Indian Lake shirt on, do you live near there? We are on Raquette Lake.
Slainte,
DC🍀
Wow...those floors turned out so beautiful!!!!
Beautiful!!! Great job!! That super hard work definitely paid off!! Love the color also!!
Thanks for posting! Your hard work paid off! Your ideas are a godsend!
Wow!! The floor turned out beautifully perfect! I have the same pine wood floor and this inspired me to do my floor!! Thank you for sharing your Journey.
Floors came out perfect. Love the work you’ve done
I have the same heart pine floors and casework in my house. I put a lot of sweat equity in mine too but the end result made it worth it. And you are correct, replacing it would be a LOT more expensive. Great job!
You can actually really make those hardwood floors look absolutely beautiful
Thank you! You have given me hope for my wood floors!
Best of luck with your floors!
Thank you for sharing. 😊
I need to do my 1955 floors. They have cupping as well. This looks amazing and ya know even if mine don't end up perfect, I am fine with flaws...gives some character.
The fact that I have floors from 1955 that can look beautiful again in 2023 well 🎉🥳 I think that is pretty amazing actually.
Amazing beautiful work love the floor😱💯👏🏼👍🏼✌🏼🙋🏼♀️
Thanks so much 😊
That looks just like my hard wood floors that I discovered under carpet. I’m hoping mine are gonna turn out nice when I restore mine.
You did an amazing job! my best wishes for the growth of your channel.
Thank you!
try Oxalic Acid for stains in wood. It's what furniture restorers use.
Beautiful job.
Just found your channel. This is my first video to watch.
Such a beautiful outcome! You worked really hard and it shows. I enjoyed watching. Thank you!
Thank you! We were very happy they turned out as well as they did. It was a lot of work but so worth it in the end
Hard working man👏🏼👏🏼 nice job 👍
Thank you for taping up the fireplace. Had a DIY couple near here sanded their floors and didn't tape it up and all that dust got all up in the chimney and a few months later when they lit it the chimney caught fire. They were able to get it out quick enough to save the house but that nice fine wood dust burned real easy and quick.
Great Job!
Thank you
For someone who may be looking at this in the future, Zinsser sells a two part wood bleach. It comes in packages that are too small and may be expensive for doing a full floor, but I’ve used it when refinishing furniture and it’s useful. It’s probably easily accessible chemicals, think for sure it’s peroxide and an activator, but if you have a project like this might be worth investigating. I haven’t gotten that far yet but thought I’d leave this for someone who might be investigating doing this. I have wood floors too but the finish is good except for a couple marks and I probably won’t get there for a year or so.
Thank goodness I found this video. My floors looked just like that if not worse. The pet stains are over powering even after trying several cleaners. I'll try the Peroxide and see how that works.
Awesome job
Great job
Lookin good!
You're patient! I would have had a buffer with a tampico attachment on that. By hand, my goodness now that is a slog lol. Looks good.
LOL...a buffer would have been the better option😄
Music too 📢📢📢 🔊 LLOUD!
i had a table with water damage where the legs were all black at the bottom. i mixed up wood bleach in a cup (no, not the regular bleach) and sat the black legs in it. they now look perfect! next time i would suggest trying that.
I'm gonna try this!!!!
They sell wood bleach you know. It really works great after floor sanded. So you won't be need to sand floor thin. Just need to sand the finish off. I like to be different i like stain floors with black stain then sand off and then use royal blue wood stain on my floors looks great with the black wood grain of oak. Really great look on floor. The blue is really beautiful on wood grain.
Does wood bleach work on dog urine stains?
Thanks for this! I have water and pet stains to deal w. Wish there wasn’t music
Agree. All of these videos seemed to think they need to feel empty time where they're doing something repetitive and time-consuming like sanding the floors with loud busy cheerful music and it's unbearably loud sometimes. The sanding was pretty loud too so my suggestion would be just mute it all a little bit and either speed up the video until you're through standing or just do one of those wipes across the screen that lets everybody know a lot of time has passed and get to the last stage. Otherwise a great video
I really appreciate the fact that you took the time to video all this but at the same time I get that it was definitely a lot if work nevermind the recording of it..but I was disappointed when it came up that you lost the rest of the footage no disrespect at all I was curious on what you did use on the finishing parts ... thanks again for taking the time.. one quick tip I found out by accident was that during the holiday I left a bag by the garbage bag by the door not sure what leaked out but when I got back someone already took the garbage out and it left a really bad stain to the point where it took of some of the stain off .but I usually like to keep a water bottle with dawn and water making my own well I other products would not remove the stain but the watered down dawn after staying it on and using a little scrubbing pad just a little and washing it off with a wet clean cloth much to my surprise the stain came out dawn work on a lot of things so I am happy about that but the floor is in need of a light sanding and a redo that is why I was watching. But I can never find a video on a light colored floor ugg.. hope the tip helps just don't leave the dawn on too long rinse and wipe it soaked it up right away should work out good ..I've used it on put door teak and works like a charm ❤
Just the video I needed. The exact combo of pet stains and radiant baseboards. Just shopping; didn't buy it.
Do I have questions :P We bought a house prior to the auction, We are dead set on saving the hardwood floors throughout the home. Like this video, they had carpet and pets over the years, So step one would be sanding them all down first then cleaning them with the peroxide. We also will be renting the machines. So rent them on a Friday giving us the weekend with the floor sanders, I have zero experience running :) It might take longer but from what I have learned so far the Orbital is easier to handle. Step one? step two? and on would be? Oh, and we are 60 and 74 years old :) After three years of health issues, we just can not afford to hire anyone. I hope to see some positive replies. Thank you!
What tools did you use?
That's not even the worst floor I have had to save. I didn't video that one. That's not a bad self job either. Good floors.
I have those same stains and smells on my wood floor. How long did you leave the kitty liter on the floor?
Great job
Hardwork definitely pays off
Next time you rent those tiny sanders try adding some weights on top, second when you edge the machine is made to go left to right. I use hydrogen peroxide on all pet stains as well
Did you use a specific peroxide
What grit did you start and finish on??
I started with 60 grit and moved up to 180, I went as far as I thought I needed to
I think the "blonde spots" and remaining stains would be deceptively shallow, less than 1mm, and another run with the drum sander would have removed them and levelled the floor. No chance of skimming that with the orbital. Unfortunately, the stains show right through even that dark wood stain.
Absolutely - cutting deeper with sander is the way! Peroxide bleaching or some acids can hide stains a bit, but the correct way is to really remove the top stained and oxidized layer. Using that big fat drum sander that can take lot of material. There are few spots where is still visible original "orange" tint of previous finish because some of boards were more bow or porous. That also need to be sanded .... and not locally with small hand sanders - that create small pits that will pop up next time renovating this floor.
Removing old, oxidized and stained material is also important to ensure that new varnish / tint / finish will adhere properly, will not change colour randomly at random spots. Because all these visible various parts of floor also contain chemicals from previous finishes that can react with new finish.....
@@adamprchlik2577 Exactly, another run with the drum would have done the right job.
These floors came out beautiful! What finish did you use?
Thank you! We really didn't know if we could save them. We used Minwax, Semi-Transparent Espresso #273 and got it from Lowes
what kind of poly did you use? semi gloss? satin?
I used a semi gloss
How did you get the smell out. I’m not as concerned about some discoloration on mine…they’re old. But if I go through all that work and they still smell like pet… I can’t stand that. I would rip them out at that point and put in LVP, but I’m really hoping to salvage mine. But right now the whole house smells like pet urine.
What was the solution ratio you created with the peroxide?
I used straight up 3% peroxide. Poured it straight on the floor after sanding, scrubbed and covered with a soaked paper towel for several hours. Did this several times. Achieved faster and better results keeping it wet with the Peroxide and towel method.
Beautiful! My question is -- what about the urine smell?? Was that present when you started -- and did this make it go away completely? About to move into a 160 year old house with lovely floors except for the past 20 years when I cat lady lived there. Very bad odor - and staining, of course.
When you stain and then add 2 coats of finish it will seal in the smell
Part of the reason it took so long is I found you have to let the floors breathe. I did not stain or seal the floors until the smell had dissipated. Between sanding them and several cleanings I do not smell any urine. Great question
How much does that cost? I have original hardword with mystery stains (and some I know aren't a mystery - mea catta culpa!) and an area where the owner didn't bother to put in more flooring after replacing a wood floor heat return - just filled in the area with crappy board! I need help.
Can't answer you on what it will cost you, I had about $500 between tool rental, stain and cleaning supplies but this was for all the floors not just one room
What stain did you use?!
Minwax and the color is espresso
What color is that? I have few pee stains just like that I'm hoping to use a dark stain like this I'm doing matte since I suck at sanding I have scratches lol.
We used Minwax's Espreso
Thanks I ended up using golden mahogany it looks reddish dark since my floor is red oak oh well you live and learn I'm still working on the polyurethane tonight and tomorrow.
Hi my house was built in 1894. Don't think the wood is that good. There might be some spaces in the wood, what should I do?
These older homes have wood that is much better than what we get in the stores today. I would guess that as long as there hasn't been termite or water damage you might be okay but you would have to look. I had some gaps as well and just filled in the large gaps with wood putty and left the others alone. Best of luck!
The only way you're not going to see those pet stains is if you're not looking at the floor 😆
Did the smell fully go away?
Thankfully, yes 😄
What color stain is that???😊
Shame they had to/choose to switch to forced air. Did they intent in any other vids? Or maybe they went with heat pumps instead?? 🤔
I take my hat off to anyone who gives it a go 👍
put a bid on a house that will need this done in 2 spots, about how much estimated did a room cost you? in stain, and rentals equipment.?
I don't know what rentals are in your area or the cost of supplies however, I think I had about $500 for all the rooms...time is what it will cost you the most. I only needed the machines for a day or two and the rest washing and scrubbing. It can be done, just takes time and no it will not be perfect, just better
You sure had a job. What is in the white label brown small bottle that u are rubbing with no gloves on
That was the peroxide
I would have either ripped up old floor or went over it with a new one.
Gone over it, not went over it.
Oxalic acid wood bleach,,,
Just the video I needed to see. I inherited a house with hardwood floors stained with dog urine😑.
Awful smell. I’m going to do this to make it better.
Peroxide wow.
Did you have fun hand sanding down the old cat and dog piss? Just because it looks better doesn't mean it's not there. Def. Should've cleaned and disinfected the floors right after sanding.
What an a$$. It would clean them after sanding them. You think he's going to stain over wood dust?
They might not have but after having to smell them for months they probably were able to cope knowing they were getting rid of the smell once and for all. And I bet they had fun spending the money that they saved!
Oxalic acid to lighten bad spots then black stain is the way to go with floors like this
You are absolutely right. I wonder why he didn’t use that.
Because I'm not a professional floor refinisher and just a DIY'er working within a budget
diy is not for hardwood floors!
Edit: the best hardwood floor job you can do as a diy will not even come close to what professional guys are doing, it's the skills, experience and the tools too. just because you "like" the floors after a diy job doesn't mean it actually looks good.
It is for people that have watched a lot of videos/read a lot about how to finish them and don’t want to pay 4x as much
why?
So not true. You need to see mine. 30yrs inder carpet and than laminate. They look like they were just installed and I am not a diyer.
@@jonah8778Sometimes you pay and the results as not even as close as the effort the owner puts into it.
@gabeo.731 you speak for yourself. DIYs ARE FOR SOME...
AND....NOT FOR OTHERS