A lite sanding with a 240 grit sand paper padded with a 3M maroon pad will help break open the surface. over a stained redwood table and a lite coat of dust keeps collecting on top. Floor looked uniform. What needs to be done to make it all even? I’d like the final product to be extremely hard so the finish can withstand dings and scratches…What would you recommend for the hardest possible finish? Applying new finish to bamboo is a real BEAR. Why? If this is a gloss you are using then it may simply mean those less shiny boards were not sanded as smooth and may need another coat of finish. These guys go through DOZENS of papers/pads/belts per week. i took a lot of work to sand this floor to refinih it . I bought an insert for heat to put in it. The "first coat" is almost always a sealer. I was doing some signs that have stain and acrylic together on one sign. It been raining cats and dogs for the last three days, and the finish is still tacky. Backed by his 40-year remodeling career, Danny served as the home improvement expert for CBS’s The Early Show and The Weather Channel for more than a decade. All rights reserved. Its been a couple of months now and I’m starting to see bubbling (white) in the seams of the floors. Like paint, polyurethane comes in sheens, most commonly satin, semi-gloss and gloss. Thanks. I used mineral spirits and microfiber cloth to clear after the final grit. Thanks. A: Well, of course the open grain,…, We have wood floors that were installed 5 or 6 years ago. Is there a way to get the pressure marks out of the surface. It can be difficult to correct, but you best approach is to strip the table again, then clean the surface thoroughly with multiple washes of lacquer thinner followed by naphtha or mineral spirits (these are highly flammable solvents that are also not good to breathe, so use them in a well ventilated area away from sparks or open flames). I finished the second coat on my steps with polyurethane and and it dried but, I forgot to put on a flat surface and the finish ran and dried in a white and hazy wave pattern. Do I have to wait till it cures for weeks or can I do that tomorrow? Now I have a spot that appears lighter than the rest of the stripe. Any advice is appreciated! But I was essentially rubbing out the finish after 8 hours. These can be removed by knocking them off – vacuum the area – lightly sand and then re-coat. It looks like there is nothing on the wood and is smooth. "You absolutely have to wait for a full cure, or odd things will happen in the prematurely rubbed out finish when it does cure, which it will. So, they went back over with sandpaper and sanded it off. Cookies help us deliver our Services. If it eventually will darken without stain and catch up to the floor I am okay with that. He applied a very fast drying, oil-based polyurethane, clean satin finish. If they aren’t coated in that time – the oil from the wood will penetrate back to the top of the freshly sanded wood and cause waterbase finishes to peel; while oil base finishes on them will take much longer to dry. Can polyurethane floor finish problems resolve themselves. What can I do and what is causing this? Thanks. I have new walk in closet cabinets do I need to poly after staining or can I leave them or parts of them alone. Do I have to take all the old off? My husband wants to dillute a drying agent and brush it over the top but I am don’t want to do anything that will make it worse. Check the Kilz. A: Possible causes: finish not stirred well enough to disperse the flattener. Again I do not remember if I used water or oil base poly but it was a large new can. I was very upset so after it had dried I sanded this wall so that all the puffed up finish was smoothe. I decided to refinish my hardwood floors recently. In those areas that are shiny, it either set up too quickly so that it couldn’t or it wasn’t mixed up well enough. wet tack and dry completely and again mixed the poly slowly and tried using a brush and also tried using the paint pad on the stick both left little lumps all over. I am very new at this so I would love some directions. Emailed Minwax. Once I polyurethane and sand each coat several times, I will finally get them to look ok (the white cast is minimal), but now I’m worried they’ll start looking worse with time. The top layer of this floor is wood and I’ve read that you can sand this out. This unique flat sheen gives wood a natural look while providing the protection of traditional polyurethane. It doesn't look like its even there, I can only feel it.2. First Coat: Expect raised grains, rough surface, loose fibers, uneven sheen, uneven coating, flashing, brush marks, lap marks, and bubbles or trapped particles. Sometimes that means using a grain filler. I am a flooring contractor, so I do have the equipment. Can I do a quick fix with gel stain. You can use a cloth on a wood block, but the felt blocks sold for this work are better. My husband advised me to finish with clear coat of polyurethane in the form of a spray. At this point, we want to just get the original tabletop showing. 1. What was the product used? I haven't brushed lacquer, only sprayed it. It is harder and clearer than semi- and satin. What should we do? We haven’t covered this specific topic on todayshomeowner.com; we recommend submitting questions involving such a unique situation to the Today’s Homeowner Radio Show. Exotic woods: These need to be coated in within 1 hour of prepping them for a coat. can you cover two coats of semi-gloss polyurethane with a satin polyurethane? You then move up to the next grit level...finish the room and "edge in" the walls (by hand...with the hand held...in the same grit). Used mineral spirits to remove smudges, buy they are right back with the slightest touch. I thank you in advance for your help. I even added it to a small portion of the first part of the floor that had turned out so well. I sanded down to the bare wood stained and waited the full time if not longer to put the polyurethane down. But I really liked the look with just the final 600 grit dry sanding. The wood was unfinished. After spending hours on a six panel door, sanding, pre-staining, staining and pu’ing our doors are getting a white film, you cannot scratch it off, it is solid. I waited three days for drying and then applied a light coat of the clear satin polyurethane to the door and trim. If you go with foam, ask for a safety data sheet on it and check to be sure the VOC emissions are low. Not all of the floor got this on it. If I sand them down a little can I put on more stain before I put on the new poly? Take a box fan and place in a window facing out and another facing in. Any suggestions? thank you for your time! Coating over a porous surface. Uneven polyurethane coverage can be fixed with sanding. I have a family member who has some experience with floor finish application who has offered to apply it. Apply just enough putty to form an even layer. PU has been temp wise stored at around 50% and was applied at about the same can this cause the problem or is there a better answer. The sealer is then lightly roughed up (not always...but a well rounded professional will do this automatically...'cause it looks better) and the first of TWO coats are then applied. It was less sheen then gloss. I wiped the dust off and painted with a gloss poly. Satin, Semi-gloss, and gloss?3. I just installed a new 3/4 inch hardwood flooring from Bruce. When a oil base polyurethane had not dried in the allotted time it needs exchange of air. 1/8″ topping is still pretty tacky feeling. If this is to do with the "wrong gloss" level being chosen (homeowner choice = homeowner disappointment) then the cost of the "fix" will be on the homeowner. This is not the typical way in which red oak reacts to the stains and finishes we use. Some parts are reflective and some are dull. Even slight temp changes spread and tightened the grain so radically that it would squeeze the oil-based stain up through the polyurethane semi-gloss finish, or even bubble poly layers away from the wood surface. It came out beautifully, but that was 3 years ago. Thanks. Thank you again, If you want a satin or semi- finish just rub it out to different degrees.

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