A lower number means coarser and more abrasive.
What grit to use on oak hardwood.
Start with 36 grit sandpaper for a floor that hasn t been sanded in a long time or that has a lot of heavy finish on it.
This should usually be the starting grit for a hardwood floor with heavy adhesive e g.
The process can.
Use the edger using the same grit you just used on the drum to sand all the areas that the drum couldn t reach.
The coarse paper will remove the old finish and smooth the oak floor.
You need to progress through every grit to polish off the scratches left by the previous grit.
My wife wants a cherry stain the oak floors in the rest of the house that had hardwoods were done with on a red oak floor.
If the hardwood floor can handle another sanding plan to be aggressive about it.
One question did arise any guidelines to use in the amount of sandpaper to get.
Scratches are more visible on fine grain wood like birch or maple so go to 100 grit.
For either soft or hardwoods start around 50 grit and gradually step down to 120 grit.
Use as the starting grit for floors with shellac finishes single layers of paint or some very hard floors like maple.
An edger can be difficult to control so practice your technique on scrap wood first.
As with the drum sander start with course grit paper and then move to finer grades.
Use a radiator edger to sand under all radiators or toe kicks if you have them.
On most jobs the sequence is 24 36 60 80 for coarse grain wood like oak.
Start with a 60 grit sandpaper but if the floor is in really bad shape you may have to use 36 grit paper.
If you skip more than one grit in the sanding sequence you end up with the first cut leaving deep scratches into the wood and the second cut having too fine of a grit to take out the first scratch.
The initial coarse grits remove the finish and flatten the wood.
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Floors that have been painted may even require you to go tougher and use 24 or 16 grit paper.
A floor that was underneath carpet or several coats of paint.
A higher number means a finer softer sandpaper grit.
This is one of the coarsest grits available.
Sandpaper grit designations might be the opposite from what you think.
Was hoping to find a guide like 5 sheets of each grade for a 12x 12 room or something like that.
This peak and valley profile will leave a rough looking floor and if stained cause uneven staining see the guide to abrasives sidebar below.