Video: Stripping the Finish off the Wood Floors at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Mar 5, 2024

How do we go about stripping the old finish off the beautiful wood flooring when we do historic restorations? Here's a look at the work we're doing right now at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe, Mich.:

Notes from the Editors:

See Michael Purser's article about working on the wood flooring at Henry and Clara Ford's estate, Fair Lane, in Dearborn, Mich., here.

See all of Michael Purser's articles and blog posts for Wood Floor Business here.

Listen to Michael Purser discuss wood floor restoration on the "All Things Wood Floor" podcast here.

Video: Applying Finish to the Wood Floors and Wrapping Up at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

March 12, 2024

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Stephen Gunneson of Branford, Conn.-based Gunneson Flooring Company shared these two artifacts from the early days of water-based coatings: a vintage gallon of Basic Coatings Street Shoe water-based finish found at a customer’s home, and a casette tape of a seminar on “Water Based Floors” from 1995.

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Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: Keeping Track of Your Finish Made Easier

Aussie wood floor pro Troy Stanfield at Plankd Flooring in Mt. Barker, Australia, has a couple handy tips for helping keep track of wood floor finish.

Arbortech Mini Grinder Trade Review: A Practical Take

Arbortech Tools

Check out Matt Garcia of Craftsman Hardwood Flooring’s thoughts on using the Arbortech Mini Grinder.

Arbortech Mini Grinder Trade Review: A Practical Take

Wood Floor Rescue

Video: Applying Finish to the Wood Floors and Wrapping Up at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Wood Floor Business author/blogger and wood flooring restoration expert Michael Purser of The Rosebud Company gives us a look into his project at Edsel & Eleanor Ford House—here we see finish application and the "after" footage.

Techniques

Video: Buffing on Color and the First 'After' Shots at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Michael Purser of The Rosebud Company is back in Michigan working on restoring the wood flooring in the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House—here we see progress on the gallery and the stunning "after" footage of the herringbone white oak.

Techniques

Video: Day 1 on Site at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Michael Purser's The Rosebud Company is back in Michigan to once again work on restoring the wood flooring at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House; here's a look at day one on the job site.

Wood Floor Rescue

Wood Floor Rescue: Removing the Halo From Vintage Maple

Jamie Strohmeyer of Green Bay Floor Restore deals with a lot of maple in his life as a wood floor pro not far from the hardwood forests of Wisconsin, and this job offered a chance to restore beauty to this worn old maple floor.

Wood Floor Rescue

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Kyle Thompson of Port Angeles-based Thompson Floors & Home Repair had some interesting challenges when he tackled this big wood floor restoration job.

Techniques

Tips for Intercoat Abrasion with Waterborne and OMU Finish

Wood floor expert Toby Merrill offers tips every wood floor pro who uses waterborne or oil-modified polyurethane finish should know.

It’s important to make sure the edges are abraded just as well as the field. Here, Scott Bowman of Bowman’s Hardwood Floor Refinishing abrades the edges on a floor made of cutoffs from trailer flooring.

Recoating

Wood Floor of the Week: Bringing New Life to an Award-Winning Gem

The wood floor that had won Floor of the Year in the Best Library/Office category in 2005 for now-defunct Chicago-based Birger Juell Ltd. had suffered water damage, and Daniel Reddy was brought in to restore the curly cherry floor.

The 2005 article about the original winning floor, left, and the floor today after restoration from water damage.

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