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Finishing a Wood Floor

Howard Brickman has begun sanding the old growth Eastern white pine floor in the bedroom. Like the sunroom, the fine quality of the millwork from Carlisle requires only about 2 passes. The next step is the finish. Brickman is using Tung Oil from Carlisle. This will take about 4 coats to complete. Next Bob and Brickman head back to the sunroom, where they are finishing up. Before he can apply the finish, Brickman smoothes the edges of the room with a hand scraper and palm sander. Next, he runs a floor polisher over the surface and then vacuums. Brickman is using Carlisle Tung Oil here as well. He begins by applying the oil to the corners with a hand sponge then uses a roller on the rest of the floor.
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Finishing a Wood Floor

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" The flooring that I'm walking on has already had a coat of Tung oil based finish this is a beautiful. -- growth eastern white pines some of these boards -- as much as about twenty inches and it's from Carlisle but in the next room we've got Howard Brickman. Who is. About to start. Putting the finish on the rest of the floor Howard how much sanding is required here are it's pretty minimal with this particular material because the milling is so good there's very little over with that's the secret the quality of the mill work its. This really super what kind of sanding grit do you need to use here how we use is sixty grit paper to do our first cut weapons. And this machine you basically just lay this down play down and the abrasive pad. Grabbed Sam. That's actually sand screen material. OK and now runs around the machine and this vacuums as it goes along beckons as it goes along -- random orbital motion -- like preposterous and actually is like a big dual action hand Sander when we get to work standing up. Pat let's let's watch. Now what kind of a finish are we putting on the on the floor. Conversational style Tung oil varnish. The original formula made in sixteen. Really and so it pours out relatively loose and clear yeah it's. Pretty little distance to finish. Oh that's nice. Scrutinizing -- return to shoot. And then your applicator is not a lamb's wool product what is it this is just say -- synthetic. Foam pad with fuzz on the -- it's it allows me to plan. And do the body of sorts and okay you're gonna get started we're gonna watch you but it'll take how many two or three coats actually this is -- four coats of sport coats two coats of sealer and and we put to assess. Good and then the Cleveland today between cut and -- all right feel later how. That is gorgeous and it -- and you never finish on it yet now Howard what are the steps that we've gone through after the big machine -- out. Run the -- corners with a hand scraper. We put the palm Sander around all of the perimeter to blend the sanding marks out and then we use a floor polish or with a screen this side. And match up all the grit marks other things for -- From scratch and then we vacuum the heck out of the whole thing -- expert and once again we're just gonna be pouring some Tung oil. I'll let you do it that it. So just the sponge applicator to cut in. And will the Tung oil be just one coat application or two or three -- it's actually two coats of the of the sealer or primer coat. And then now we're gonna put two coats of satin on top -- okay. Gifts the last of that and power that looks great."

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