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Q: We have protected our floors with 4 coats of oil based F***** product. Sanding between each, and tack clothing, etc. We still have lap marks in long lines where we used the recommended F***** applicator and pulled the product down the hall in the direction of the wood grain. Also, we have the ‘start’ [...]

Q: My daughter and I just stripped and primed (oil base) the hardwood floors. With one coat of oil base polyurethane there are visible lighter areas throughout all the rooms. I did notice when the primer was dry the edges were darker, but thought it was due to the brush. With the first coat of [...]

Q: I put a final coat of polyurethane on my wood floors and noticed that I missed a spot where my roller didn’t overlap in application after the floor completely dried. I tried touching it up by rolling on some poly but the finish is matte and somewhat cloudy from what I first applied. Any [...]

Q: We are having wood floors installed in a relatively new house (10 years old) on the upstairs bedroom floors. We are using a well regarded installation company. They put the floor down in one day, stained the second day and put the first and second coats of polyurethane on the third and fourth days. [...]

Q: Some shoddy workmen applied high gloss polyurethane to my sanded oak (80 years old, at least) LR and DR floors, without clearing the dust from the rooms! The next workman, trying to correct this, sanded with a fine grade grit (120?). While the floor FEELS SMOOTH, you can still see the dust spots as [...]

Q: After refinishing a hardwood floor hallway with coats of polyurethane, there is a white cloudiness on some parts of the floor that will not wipe away or go away. What can I use on it or how can I repair it? A: Was this a water borne polyurethane? It sounds like you didn’t allow [...]

Q: I sanded my 50 year old hardwood floors and applied stain. The sanding and staining went well. I ran into a problem when I applied the first coat of water based polyurethane satin gloss. There are places where it looks white and patchy. We discussed this with the stain supplier and they mentioned that [...]

Q: We had our floors sanded and poly’d. After 2 coats we had air bubbles. The company came back, buffed and reapplied the poly. Now we have even more air bubbles than previously. Why has this occurred? Should we have someone else come to fix it? Is this a sign of poor application by the [...]

Q: I have recently had my floating floors fully sanded back to bare wood then recoated with a base and 2 coats of poly. I have lots of bubbles all over the floor. He has since re-sanded lightly and recoated with another coat of poly, though this has only slightly improved the finish. To the [...]

Q: We just had new white oak 4′ installed in large area, about 800 sq. ft. Then Minwax special walnut was applied. Then 3 coats of semi gloss oil poly. From the beginning there was debris throughout. I told the finisher and he said it will come out when they buff. Now, the 3rd and [...]

Q: I recently sanded and refinished a hardwood floor (oil based polyurethane was used). It has ‘beads’ of poly along the interface between two adjacent boards. This occurred on the old flooring and also on some new flooring. Why did this occur? A: Refer to Stop Polyballs (Poloplaz) Article.

Q: I inadvertently walked on newly applied oil based polyurethane in stocking feet and walked on a recently cured flooring of the same poly and left footmarks. I need some advise on how to economically repair this. A: Apply painters tape around the edges of the entire boards affected. Lightly with fine sand paper rub [...]

Q: I have Brazilian cherry hardwood floors, natural finish, 3 coats oil base poly (high gloss). The floor was installed late summer with AC on in house and the material sat in house for 7 days. I still expected the floor to shrink over the winter and it appears to have done so within acceptable [...]

Q: We sanded our floors and applied an oil based poly (1 thick coat only). The floors are beautiful except the hall and dining room where we didn’t apply the poly until 3 days after the floors were sanded. In those rooms only, the poly dried with a swiss cheese appearance. Meaning the “holes” are [...]

Q: I just had my oak kitchen floor refinished, completely stripped, restained with a single coat of poly applied. Everything looked fine at that point. Then we waited a few days to have the top coat of poly applied while other work was being done in my kitchen. After the final coat of poly was [...]

Q: I sanded, cleaned, and applied one coat of a high build poly to my floors 7 days ago. It is still tacky and not drying at all. What do I do now? A: It sounds like something is reacting with the finish or perhaps you applied it too heavily. Try wiping it down with [...]

Q: We have just had our 50-year old white oak floors refinished. For the most part they look fine, but many of the edges are lighter than the rest. The contractor (who we are not happy with) came back, sanded one part, put on one coat of varathane and left. He said it was not [...]

Q: We have mahogany hardwood floors in our sunken dining room and throughout most of our house in NJ. We built the house with radiant heat throughout and used a tung oil finish on these floors. We have been living in this house for almost seven years now. In the winter I keep the radiant [...]

Q: My hardwood contractor had a failure and redid the floors entirely. The floors are Jatoba with Orinoco stain (reddish brown). We thought we were home free and then discovered many spots that literally look like fingerprints. Cleaning only helps temporarily, later the fingerprint-like spots reappear. It looks to me like a scuffing from the [...]

Q: I put down water base on an oak floor. It turned orange near the cabinets and near a spot where I re sanded a dent from the fridge (a 1×1 square). Will it go away after the final coat? Or is it doing this because I hand sanded it before I put the wood [...]