As your hardwood flooring ages, it will naturally face some wear and tear, and as time goes by, you’ll want your hardwood flooring to look back to its best. This is why sanding your hardwood floor is so important. In this piece, we take a closer look at four key benefits of sanding your hardwood floor:
One of the most important advantages of sanding your wooden floor is the removal of imperfections, resetting your flooring to its original flawless state. This minimises the threat of imperfections spreading and becoming more serious, which could potentially result in the degradation, removal and untimely replacement of your flooring. Addressing issues regularly and whenever they appear is vital in the durability of your flooring, so if there’s ever any noticeable signs that the condition of your flooring has worsened in a visual sense, sanding it down is a great place to start.
Not only will sanding your flooring remove imperfections and restore the aesthetic quality, but it will also provide you with great preparation for finishing your flooring with a varnish or stain. Sanding is essential before finishing your flooring, as it will open the pores of the wood, to ensure the finish penetrates the entire structure, thus sealing the wood effectively. Staining without sanding will only serve to highlight the imperfections within the wood, instead of concealing them, emphasising the importance of sanding correctly.
Both hardwood flooring and engineered flooring can be sanded, with hardwood floorings capable of being resanded multiple times without the need for replacement. Engineered hardwood flooring can be sanded too, but should only be sanded up to three or four times depending on the thickness of the surface layer. Repeated sanding down of your hardwood flooring will maintain the brand-new look throughout its lifespan, to guarantee a fresh aesthetic for years to come.
Sanding is a great way of reducing the risk of cracks and splinters from occurring in your floorboards, evening out the surface so it’s level, meaning the entire floor is much more resistant to heavy furniture, children and pets. Closing up spaces between planks, tightening loose nails and removing splinters and splits, sanding down your flooring increases the overall safety and cleanliness of your flooring.
At Just Wood, our team of wood floor renovation specialists work hard to return floors to their former natural beauty. Our team always puts care, time and effort into the work we carry out, whether they’re floor sanding, renovating or refinishing old wood floors. If you’re looking to restore your old wood floor to its former glory or you’re looking for floor sanding services, you needn’t look further than us. For a free consultation or to take a look at our extensive portfolio, don’t hesitate to contact us.