Unless you have darn good sight I don't recommend you take this on. Scrubbing the old finish off can be done fairly well with a belt sander if you don't mind a load of time on your hands & knees however the better way to do this is with a drum sander and this takes great care. It will grind off a lot of floor in a big hurry so you must lower the drum while moving and raise it while still moving, don't dare touch the wall.
You then finish sand wit a large pad sander but this is more practical as the machine is much gentler. You will need a belt edge sander to get in close to walls. Then you vacuum and vacuum and vacuum some more to remove absolutely all the dust. Often you will want to install some sort of plastic air locks to isolate the room and keep the dust from infiltrating everything in the house. You then begin applying coats of the rapid drying Poly. This wants to go on evenly and fairly quickly. It takes several hours between coats and you polish off any dust nibs and fly droppings which have settled into the finish as it was drying. You vacuum this clean and what ever else you can get off of the walls so it doesn't fall into the finish, probably damp wipe it down and double check for any hairs or threads then apply another coat again rapidly and evenly so the finish doesn't have bubbles, brush marks or puddles. You repeat this until you have several coats before returning the room to use. You will need to remove all furnishing of course and rent most of the fancy sanding machines and you might prefer to rent or otherwise acquire a vacuum cleaner which can be set up outside so the exhaust isn't blowing any dust about to later rain out into the finish. If properly done the floors will look beautiful. If poorly done they will look: Well they will look poorly done. ----- Original Message ----- From: aadorno1 To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:59 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] polly yurathane and floors. hi list, I would like to Polly urethane my floor in the living room, but it's a living room dining room and there is a lot of furniture. now the stripping the floor and everything else I can do, but I am intimidated by the aspect of moving the furniture. can any one on this list who has done this before give me any and all suggestions on how best to do this task. thanks so much. Angel. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
