Wood Flooring Ideas Photos: Wood Floor Edger Sanding

Edger-sanders are larger and bulkier than orbital sanders and typically require two-hand operation instead of one. These are the types of sanders flooring pros use when refinishing hardwood floors Traditional interiors are making a comeback in the 1990s, and with that trend comes a renewed interest in hardwood floors A machine called an edger is used to sand where the drum sander cannot SANDING a wood floor before refinishing is not too difficult Three basic tools are necessary: a drum sander, an edger and a hand scraper. The first two are large power tools available from rental But when you're planning to sand the entire floor in any case, who cares. Sanding. To handle this job yourself, rent a large drum sander and a rotary edger, plus a supply of belts. Some damaged floors Make repeated passes in this way to sand one half of the floor, then move toward the opposite wall to sand the other half. Use a flooring edger and a 24-grit disk to sand the edges of the floor. An Traditionally, sanding and refinishing a wood floor was a job for a seasoned professional After sanding the entire floor (known as a cut), use the edger to sand near the baseboards, door frames .

You usually sand the bulk of a wood floor with this machine Drum sanders don't reach into corners and along the edges of the floor. That's the job of the edger. A floor edger is a heavy-duty disk .