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We stained our hardwood floors in the living room. The can of stain said it takes 24 hours to dry. It has been 3 days now and our floors feel sticky. How do we fix this?

What is the best way to remove adhesive from a floor with a polyurethane finish? I have felt pads on the legs of my chairs and tables. Once in a while a pad comes loose and transfers adhesive onto the floor. What is the best way to remove this adhesive without damaging the polyurethane finish?

How do you remove carpet glue from hardwood floors?

We just moved into apartment-type housing. The floors are wood. The flooring in the dining room and kitchen area is very sticky. No amount of mopping is helping. Is there anything we can do without being in danger of ruining the floors and having to replace them?

My contractor installed laminated flooring; however, when he was polyurethaning the rail, he kept putting the can down and didn’t realize that the bottom of the can was leaving marks on the laminated flooring. Now I have marks of the shiny polyurethane, outline of the can, on my floor. I don’t know what to get it off with, can you help?

Polyballs are beads of paint or finish which protrude from cracks in floors when the moisture content (MC) of the wood rises, causing the cracks to close up. Paint polyballs are a bad problem, as they can be smeared over the rest of the floor, possibly requiring screening or even recoating.

We always knew that we had hardwood floor under our carpet, but we had no idea what shape they were in. So we pulled the carpet up to discover beautiful floors, but with paint stains. How do we remove the paint without dulling the floor? Or do we have to sand them and then restain? We are willing to leave the staple holes.

Under my carpet I found hardwood flooring. Unfortunately, there is leftover glue and linoleum backing adhered to the hardwood. I would like to remove the carpet and refinish the hardwood flooring. What are my options or steps to remove the glue/linoleum?

I just stained pine hardwood floors, and didn’t get all the glue cleaned up. It looks horrible. How do I remove the glue before I put the finishing coats on? I tried sanding, but it didn’t work.

Someone used a wax product on my laminate flooring. Since it has been put on my floor, all I see are scratches. They don’t feel like scratches– just look like scratches. They’re all over my floor. Someone said it’s the wax finish buildup causing the scratch marks. What do I do? Should I remove the wax product from the floor? How? Washing it with soap and water did not remove the marks, or the wax finish.

We just bought a 60 year old home and found it had beautiful hardwood floors under the carpet. We had them professionally re-finished and then we painted the walls and trim. When we removed the painter’s tape we found the paint had seeped onto the floor in many spots. Is there any way to safely remove paint from hardwood floors without damaging the finish?

Then I had the idea that maybe the wax used was not real wax (and that is why the cleaners did not really work), and I tried using ammonia, which after some rubbing on a test spot, took off all the finish. Probably too much. So I concluded that the floor was waxed with acrylic.

We recently purchased a brand new house with pre-finished Brazilian hard wood floors. During the inspection we noted that there were foot prints all over the floor that did not wipe up. When we took possession of the house, these foot prints were still present. Thus far, we have had the builders come in 3 times and each time they say it requires a good cleaning. For the most part, the foot prints are gone now, but the last time they cleaned the floors one of their workers said they were using paint thinner. They are denying that comment now, but it seems that whenever we walk across the floors barefoot now it leaves footprints. Is it normal that walking barefoot on your wood floors would leave footprints that have to be rubbed out?

I have parquet wood floors, not solid wood floors. I clean them with the ***** ******** and ***** wood floor products, but as soon as someone walks across my floors I see footprints. What can do? Or, what should I use so that footprints do not show?

The drywall guys left lots of plaster dust ground into our nice oak floor. What’s the best way to start cleaning it?

I had my oak hardwood floors sanded down and refinished. I have for the most part been satisfied with the job the contractor did; however, within the last week I have noticed that I have small rough spots forming in the cracks between the boards. These look like little black balls of stain or finish. It has been relatively dry this year and within the last week we have received a good amount of rainfall, so I wondered if the boards have maybe expanded and are squeezing something out? I am not sure what I should do about this or it is a problem or just normal.

A house cleaner cleaned our newly refinished floors with ******* ***. The floors are very sticky. How can we remove the oil without damaging the floors?

How do I remove tape adhesive from wood flooring without stripping the floor?

I am refinishing a staircase that has oak treads. The treads were finished with some sort of clear finish that’s about 60 years old. I sanded and sanded until it felt smooth and then stained three of the treads with an oil based minwax walnut. It couldn’t look worse. Every scratch, mark, and slightly different texture turned black, and the rest hardly changed at all. I was going to flip the treads over, but they are all glued, nailed and shimmed. When I tried to sand them again, the sand paper instantly clogged with hard melted looking varnish chunks. Is there any way I can get this varnish off?

How can I get old paint off a hardwood floor?