Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Refinishing a Parquet Floor

In 1985, we converted our screened-in porch to a dining room and installed a parquet floor.  In the following 29 years, the pad under the area rug rubbed just enough to scratch the heck out of the finish on the parquet.  Yesterday, when E and I moved all of the furniture, the area rug, and the pad out of the dining room, the floor looked like this.  That isn't dust or dirt in the center of the room.  It's the dull finish where the rug was.  Yikes!



We vacuumed the floor and scrubbed the parquet squares with a damp sponge.  Then, we applied a coat of satin finish polyurethane to the floor, one square at a time.  It took two hours to do the job and here's what it looked like when it was still wet.



This morning, it was dry enough to walk on and it looked like this.  Yay!



It should be completely dry in a week and then we can move things back into the dining room.

2 comments:

  1. You know where I live, so come on over! Was any of the stain affected or just the finish?

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  2. There were a few spots I had to hit with stain. I used a small brush to put it on and a paper towel to wipe it off almost immediately, and repeated this process until I got the color I wanted.

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