Finishing White Pine Floors

If you want to refinish sanding pine floors is easier than sanding hardwood.

Finishing white pine floors.

I m going to send you two pictures. It needs regular sweeping and mopping to protect the finish. You ll need to finish your own pine flooring using stain varnish or oil. The first is my own eastern white pine floor that i sanded and finished about 22 years ago with 4 coats of satin poly.

For maximum protection and durability give the floor 2 coats of stain or varnish and wait 24 hours for the floor to dry. You need more than one or two coats. Cleaning and sanding the pine floor. Most floor finishers use polyurethane to coat floors because it s one of the hardest finish materials available and it provides good dent protection for pine.

Part 1 of 3. Then apply a final coat of stain varnish or oil. But straight pine pics details about achieving a softer lighter just sanded look not so much. In fact our contractor said most people rip out their old pine floors and replace them with white oak to get that lighter and not amber look and i was like ahhh my ears are bleeding who rips out gorgeous original hardwood floors.

For the best results clean the floor first with a duster or vacuum to remove any lingering dirt or debris. It s dinged and dented but holding up just fine. When the finish gets dull you can restore it by a screen and recoat.