When a friend of Rylee Bush, owner at Infinity Flooring in Sioux City, Iowa, approached him about sanding the floors in a rental property, “He wasn’t even sure if the floors could be saved,” Bush explains. “It was really wavy with lots of patchwork—in really rough shape.” The friend thought they just needed to be covered in vinyl, but they were too uneven for that. In the kitchen, the 1½-inch oak flooring was mostly covered with the residue from old linoleum. “We scraped off whatever was on top, and what wasn’t going to scrape off I sanded with 16-grit on the Super 7 just to strip it down,” Bush says. “It cleaned up really good with no stains, really.” To repair an area where there had been a wall between the kitchen and dining room, Bush added a four-board feature strip. The great result of the completed floor surprised Bush’s friend, who had no idea what to expect since he could barely see the wood floor when they started. “It’s one of those floors where it reminds me of what it takes to lose a wood floor,” Bush says. “Unless there’s crazy water damage or fire damage, pretty much any wood floor can be saved.”
SUPPLIERS: Abrasives: Norton | Edger: American Sanders Super 7 | Finish: Loba Easy Prime and Easy Finish Satin | Sander (big machine): Lägler Hummel | Sander (multi-disc): American Sanders Epoch
