I just read your article on chemical refinishing and now feel absolutely overwhelmed and hopeless about redoing my floors.
Citristrip on hardwood floors.
Breathe life into your old wood with the best wood stripper.
After letting them sit for 3 to 5 minutes wipe off as much adhesive as you can.
To remove adhesive from a hardwood floor bring a pot of water to a boil.
Materials for floor stripping citristrip this is the stuff i use mainly because of it s low vapor toxicity.
You can use 00 or 000 steel wool dipped in citristrip to help clean the old primer out of the wood grain.
It can be used to refinish hardwood floors or it can be used to remove varnish from much smaller surfaces a.
Wash the area affected immediately with soap and water.
Bear in mind that if this material touches you it will burn in less than a minute.
Products overview paint varnish stripper aerosol paint varnish stripping gel tub paint varnish stripping gel.
Chemical stripping with citristrip and painting old hardwood floor.
Don t waste your money calling a professional to strip wood when you can do it yourself with some top wood strippers.
I tried it in the living room awful so for stripping the hardwood without sanding i used my trusty citristrip not sponsored just like i did on the stairs.
Gently use a floor scraper to remove the rest of it.
Rub the steel wool and citristrip into the wood grain like applying wax to a car and you ll get the wood clean of almost all paint residue making it ready for a varnished finish.
Though labor intensive sandpaper is capable of removing nearly any wood finish.
About a third of it is actually made from orange peel.
Step 5 clean up.
My floors are heart pine very old and in bad condition scrapes scratches.
Soak some old towels in the water and then place them on the adhesive.
With all of the layers of stuff on these floors sandpaper gums up in no time which causes you to throw away dozens of sheets of otherwise perfectly good sandpaper.