Sanding Vs Scraping Floors

Sanding the floor erases the scraping and your hand scraped floor is now a smooth floor.

Sanding vs scraping floors.

These are capable of very fine cutting over a variety of grain directional changes characteristic of parquet floors producing a finer finish than sanding. It uses a disc of sandpaper rotating at high speeds. On more even grained wood like maple the difference is a lot less noticeable provided the sanding was accomplished correctly. Scraping actually cuts the wood fibers leaving a sharper contrast of the grain in porous woods like oak and walnut.

Call me lazy but i would much rather sit there and let the sander. When floors were first laid cabinet scrapers left which have two handles and a tiny hook edge were the scraper of choice. In this instance the goal of sanding isn t to remove every last speck of. Sanding vs scraping article november 26 2008.

But i don t really like the surface they leave behind when compared to a nice 180 grit sanding. As for results it depends on the final finish. Sanding is fine if you re planning to paint over the surface anyway. Sanding abrades the surface leaving scratches everywhere.

That s not to say you can t get a killer finish prep with a well tuned scraper its just not my preferred way of doing it. An edge sanding machine allows us to sand right up to the walls and get in small tight places like corners and closets. When we sand hardwood floors with a belt sander we also have to use an edge sanding machine because a belt sanding machine can only get so close to the edges of the room. Which method is better.