A man in a hat and overalls pushing a sanding machine along a hardwood floor. - Vova Shevchuk/Shutterstock When refinishing hardwood floors, sanding is often necessary. It removes the old finish from ...

Many do-it-yourself homeowners are more than happy to stain hardwood floors. However, when it comes to sanding new hardwood floors or sanding off old finishes and scratches from old hardwood floors, ...

A hardwood floor has light shining on it from windows in the background - Sach336699/Shutterstock Someone remodeling this year may be thinking of hardwood floor types you'll see everywhere in 2025.

I’ve been renovating my Carroll Gdns brownstone for about 4 years now and I’m almost done. One of the last parts of the job is sanding and refinishing the 100+ yr old wood floors on the parlor floor.

GRANT CITY -- When Matt Gardiner visited the Philadelphia headquarters of Mr. Sandless in 2006, he was floored. The Grant City resident was so impressed by company's state-of-the-art wood floor ...

Before the invention of floor sanders (1903 is the earliest patent), workers used short blades to scrape floors by hand. Power sanders eliminated that backbreaking job, but the machines were huge and ...

When refinishing hardwood floors, sanding is often necessary. It removes the old finish from the floor, as well as scuffs and scratches, stains, and other surface imperfections, aiding in restoring ...