Sanding Pads

TIPS FOR DIY - floor sanding
Our honest advice is to let the professionals do it for you!

FLOOR SANDING COMPANY - LONDON

However, if you are a competent and trusted handyman that you may find these instructions in order to supplement the information provided by your leasing business equipment.

Equipment You will need:
1. Drum Floor Sander belt or
2. Disc Edger Sander
3. Rotary Floor Buffer / Manager
4. Vacuum
5. Sandpaper (fine, medium, coarse grade)
6. Grade 120 mesh screen with Disc Pad
7. blow hammer and nail
8. Crow Bar
9. Hand scraper
10. Dust mask, goggles, ear plugs

Soil Preparation
1. Remove any molding quadrant edges of the floor. Use a small
wooden wedge between the baseboard and the crowbar to avoid damaging the
plinth.
2. Repair or replace loose boards by gluing and / or nailing.
3. Counter Sink all protruding nail heads with nail set.
4. Vacuum regularly debris.

Sanding the floor
New floors (recently installed or slightly worn)
Start sanding: (abrasives, Grit 36-2)
Afix the pad / sheet sander, in accordance with the manufacturer of the machine and make sure it is neither too tight nor too loose. Position of the sander along the wall in the grain of the wood, with about two thirds the length of the floor in front of you.
(1). Start the engine and gently move the drum down on the floor. Walk slowly forward at a greater pace. As you near the wall, gradually increasing the balloon speech. Start by pulling back as you ease the drum back to the ground. Cover the same path already sanded, lifting the drum at the end of this passage. The following passage should be done in the same way, but move the machine about four inches in the floor area without sand. After a few passes, you will notice the sander dust bag starts filling. Stop sanding and empty the dust bag frequently for optimal performance.

(2). Once the area of two thirds of the room is completely sanded, turn the machine around 180 degrees and sand the remaining third of the way exactly the same, allowing a two to three feet of overlap on the area already sanded . If you start to notice the sanding rate is down, your abrasive sheet or pad is probably clogged or worn. Stop sanding and replace it with a new one. If you continue to work with a worn or clogged abrasive sheet or pad, you will eventually burn or damage your floor!

(3). When sanding the main surface is full use of the machine edge sander to sand the walls or baseboards and areas where the sander can not access. Move the sander in a fast edges from left to right, the semicircular motion. (Abrasive grain used identical to that used on sander). parts of sand by hand or scrape and inaccessible areas in your machines. Vacuum the entire floor. wood putty applied to any exposed cracks or holes in wood. Allow to dry before proceeding to the next stage of sanding.

SECOND SANDING Abrasives (Fine Grit 80-0)
After two drums and chants of sanding with a sheet of abrasive or pad, repeat the process described above with the fine abrasive grain - 80.



Veterans floors
Those needing a generous amount of old finish be removed, and / or uneven ground contours to correct.

Start sanding: (coarse abrasive grit 20-3 1 /.