I hear from subscribers all the
time that they spend days, weeks, even a month to sand and refinish their floors. Today we're going to attempt to sand
and refinish 400 square foot in one day. And we are off! In order to accomplish this we
need to do all the belt sanding, all the edge sanding, the corners, the finishing
sanding and vacuuming by midday so we can spend the rest of the day getting one coat
of primer and two coats of lacquer on. I had no idea about this spot on the lens, absolute nightmare, but I
guess you live and you learn We have a thin wear layer but the floor
is very flat so it shouldn't really be a problem. However for DIY, it would be a bit more
of a risk. Make sure you do your practice runs with the big machine first as I've said before
in other videos link at the end of this video. As you can see it's coming up to 10 o'clock
already and we haven't even finished the first cut yet, which is not a great start. We need to pick
up the pace if we want to get this done today. As always you have to throw in a diagonal cut
when you're sanding a strip floor like this just to make sure that it stays flat. We're
doing it on the 60 grit which is the second grit, the second of the three, that we're going
to be doing with the belt sanding machine. So, in typical fashion I have forgotten some
abrasives but luckily I'm only 15 minutes away it's uh, well it's two minutes to 11 already.
We actually didn't get started until about nine o'clock. We haven't haven't
even started the edging yet but I still think we can do it because it's
sanding like butter so... Alright, I'm going to shoot off and get my finishing
abrasives, 60 grit for the trio. See you soon. Right, I've just got my
abrasives and some brushes, I didn't realize that I'd
run out of brushes as well. Got Norton Red Heat for the trio,
really good stuff because it's... Made in America! Finally, we're on to the finish sanding, this
is the process for smoothing the floor after the initial sanding with the belt sander and edger.
As you can see, just past my bulbous belly, I'm using the trio which is a planetary sander.
And then, round the edges, we use an orbital sander, again all of this is explained in the
video which I will link at the end of this video. So we're running a little
bit behind schedule now so... If you can see that. It's just gone 2:30. All the corners are done so
we've got to final trio, hoover it and put the first coat down, so hopefully, we're going to have
that done by roughly three o'clock, maybe just after three which is not great. I've had a lot
of phone calls, lots of things slowing me down, obviously forgetting things, and a late
start, but um we're still getting it done it just means we're gonna probably be here
a little bit later, so I'll just show you what we're... I'll show you
Adam doing the final cut now. So it's, what time is it now? Oh, coming up
to four o'clock. The first coat is dry... We're just putting down the second coat. Alright, 18 minutes past six, right, we have
finally put the last coat down and it is drying... I will be coming back tomorrow to get
the final dry shots um... but yeah, we have managed to do it, we have managed to
do the 400 square-foot in-one-day challenge! It could have been earlier,
could have finished earlier. I've popped back to take the final shots
of this floor the lighting is not perfect, but uh, I hope you're going to
be able to see how good it is. You know, not blowing my own trumpet, but um
you know, you can do a a reasonably good job, a very good job in one day with 400 square feet. I will turn on the lights in just a moment And there it is! The final
product. What do you think? Now bizarrely YouTube in its infinite wisdom, thinks that you're most likely
to click this video next. However, I think you should watch this video next as it may just change the way you
think about floor sanding altogether!
