Can You Plane Prefinished Flooring

Given that a prefinished wood floor can be nailed down and walked on the same day you might be wondering why go through the muss and fuss of installing the unfinished variety.

Can you plane prefinished flooring. If you are using it as flooring somewhere else put it down as is and sand it with a floor sander or have it done professionally. You re going to wind up floor sanding it anyway to make it level in its new location. There is no way you can ever manually duplicate the factory coating. If you don t have a dustless system and or you don t vacuum between cuts the aluminum oxide will be resanded into the floors leaving scratches you can t sand off later.

I can imagine it will kill the planer blades though so have a couple sets. If you are using it for raw wood drum sander or planer. After two cuts on the big machine and the edger both with 80 grit we were done with the majority of the sanding. When you re choosing wood flooring you obviously have a choice between prefinished wood or a floor that s finished on site.

You can walk on your new prefinished floor immediately. Difficult to repair if pre finished hardwood flooring gets scratched or dented during installation you have no option but to replace the entire floorboard. With flooring that is finished on site using oil based polyurethane the homeowner must wait days sometimes even weeks before moving. Forget the notion of trying to fill sand and re seal with your own coating.

You can stain the new floor to.