Atomix Corporate employee. My Duties include but are not limited to: Shipping Receiving, Marketing and Brand Building to the mobile dj community in North America, Director of North American operations, technical support for the apple and pc platforms. A DJ since 1996 living in the back woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania (south of Erie, PA).

Tue 07 Aug 07 @ 5:42 am

As seen in the previous photo's we decided to Re-finish the floors in the downstairs of our new house. I have to warn everyone thinking about doing this to their own house its a ton of work, however for us the payoff was great. Here's a few pictures of the journey to floor bliss.

Step One



Rent this big ass heavy sander and buy a ton of sandpaper and let this thing drag you around for days.



As you can see even though the floors looked level they were indeed not ever close by any sense of the word. This is what the floor looked like after 2 complete sandings with 36 grit sandpaper. We then did 2 more passes with 50 grit and 2 more with 80, and then 100 by hand with an orbital palm sander



Here's what they look like now with 3 coats of poly on the floors they look brand new again. The floors are maple which is a light color that goes great with the oak baseboards and window trim.



Even though it was a ton of work and I couldn't feel my arms for a week afterwords I'd have to say the pay off is great. I like these floors so much we decided to redo the floors in my office upstairs which are pine.



All in all the floors in this house ae in great shape now and we are glad we put the effort into making them look new again.