I have been neglecting my website updating this past July, maybe too distracted by the summer weather and lots of other business related stuff ongoing. Anyway, the hardwood project at the renovation site was quite a lengthy process, and I learned a fair bit as well. One factor was the requirement for good power to run the sander and vacuum machine. That pro level equipment doesn’t play nicely with the old panel still in the house (electrician was away and it didn’t get changed soon enough). We got lucky and salvaged a bunch of identical material to piece in from another job site, which was free to acquire. This was great and the finished product looks totally fantastic. I am super impressed with the way it turned out, from absolutely awful to a charmingly restored ‘like new’ hardwood floor. I would estimate that to do this in a new home with new site finished oak would cost about $10,000 for the small bungalow we worked on, if you could even get it from a store. We’ve considered salvaging enough of this to do a full new build such as at K35, but it does not seem viable. We’d have to do a lot of work to get 2000 sq ft of product. Are we that motivated?
Just a light buff and this is done. Walked around today on it barefoot. Lovely natural wood, and extremely old, probably 200 year old material here that looks almost new in 2019.
One of the many stages of sanding, this is the final round…already looked great raw.
Hidden gem of a floor right here, and this was a good spot. There was some really bad areas…