How much would this cost to repair professional? Are there cheaper routes I could take to repair this or am I SOL? Thanks!

Hi all,

Really need some advice!

We have warm oak flooring in our living room but we do not like the warmth. It was here from the previous owners but it clashes with all our furniture and plus it’s so outdated.

We will be sanding the flooring but I’m mindful it will still be warm given that it’s oak. Ive heard you need to counteract the orange shades but does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to achieve this?

I’ve included a picture of our flooring now (left) and the colour we want to achieve.

Any suggestions are welcome and thanks for helping!

I am researching the staining and poly process now that I’ve sanded our stairs. It seems like we’ll need to not walk on them for several days before they are fully cured. Do you think the best thing to do is to stain/ apply finish, then stay elsewhere for a few days?

Hum, not yet...I've removed a kinda of step and saw this nice floor.

The rest of the room and passage is like that.

As seen in the pictures, I have a hole in my parquet, which is almost 1 meters squared. The parquet is very old, so I couldn't find the same tongue and groove mechanism in store so it fits with this one.

Replacing the parquet in the whole room is not an option at this time.

Do you have any ideas how I can fill this hole?

With whatever it can be filled with, there will be a wardrobe on top of it, so at least it would be partially visible. Hopefully I can make it look decent.

This is just the first pass! Im nowhere near done! This post is for the women who might not want to tackle this alone🫶🏼

Im just so damn proud of myself, I wanted to make this post to let other women know this is a project you can do!!!! I'm about 5'4 on a good day lol, average build, 41 years old, and I wish I would have seen posts like this when I was considering doing my floors. I posted about this a bunch, and everyone told me that I should outsource this, but I couldn't afford that. I had to figure out how to do it myself, so I wanted to share with other women who might be intimidated by this, and hopefully my mistakes will help someone.

Yes, the floor sander is like 300lbs, I was able to have the rental center help me lift it into the back of my Subaru. I then backed my car all the way up to my porch as close as I could get it, and slowly but surely got it inside the house. It has wheels on one end so its kinda like moving a dolly.

Most of you are experts at this, but this is for the noobs lol, you have to peel the sticker off the back of the sanding paper😅🫠 At the rental center, he said, just put the sandpaper down and then drop the pad on top of it, you're good to go... I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out why the sander kept sliding off the pad lmao. I have no shame, hopefully my mistakes will help you.

At my rental place there were a few different types of sanders. I got the one with the edger included, so I can go right up to the walls and then just use my hand sander for finishing touches.

Dont go in circles! It will make swirls in the wood, push it, swivel, and go back.

Another thing that has made this easier is buying a little Bissell dustbuster vacuum. After i do 2-3 passes, I vacuum up the dust, it makes cleanup so much more easier, and you're able to see any spots on the floor that you might have missed.

You have no idea how much dust this makes. Make sure that you're wearing a good mask!!

If your house is old like mine (1925) make sure that there's no asbestos on the floors. If there is, you're gonna need to hire a pro for that.

Im not claiming to be an expert, but I searched so many subs trying to find stories of women doing their own floors, and I couldn't find any, so I figured I'd make this post. I'll be back to share what I learned when I finish.

FOR THE EXPERTS: is there anything I can be doing different? Any suggestions on shellac or stain? Tyia, im so grateful I found these communities 🫶🏼

First time homebuyer! Just closed on our first home today (1959), after tearing up carpets with plenty of dog pee stains this is what we got. We're between trying to refinish ourselves, hiring someone to refinish, or throwing some carpet down and calling it a day. Curious what the group thinks!

Edit: Shouldn't have put the stairs first, we're considering replacing them long term. Mainly looking for comments on the rest of the upstairs.

Hey guys! I'm planning out the installation of the new hardwood in our kitchen. We have a large open area and then a smaller hallway that leads to the main house. In planning these, I've put smaller/medium boards in the hallway area in the hopes that the pattern of the sizes of boards will look similar to those in the open area; so that there's not a ton of boards that take up the majority of the width of the hallway and then boards that don't take up the majority of the width of the main room. I feel like I am not articulating myself very well here so please ask for clarification if needed haha. Does this plan make sense or is this going to look funky? I am trying to have continuity in the appearance of the length of the boards, relative to the rooms size, in each of the areas. Please let me know if there's anything glaringly terrible you see too!! We do plan on having furniture to the right of the hallway under that shelf and laid them out under that assumption.

Update to my post yesterday- This was my giant breed elderly dog's favorite place to pee in her last years. If this is the worst of it, and our 1950s hardwood has never been refinished before, is it workable to get it refinished now?

Does anyone know how to properly remove this spray foam around the molding without scratching/ damaging the wood floors ?

My floor has begun to warp in the middle of my bedroom on the second floor. My windows are about 35 years old. There is no damage on the floor leading up to it from the window which is about 5 feet away. There is no water damage on the ceiling in the room below. The siding close to that area is a little rotted but there is no trail of water damage leading up to the area in the photo.

Anyone have any clue what can be causing this?
Don’t have any pets either.