round 3 update to follow.Saturday, August 29, 2009
white floor disaster!
on thursday project "white floors" began. we primed the floors then painted them antique white and applied an oil based polyurethane to about a quarter of the room before we noticed it yellowing. i googled the problem and learned that we should have used a water based polyurethane. back to home depot! on friday we re-primed, repainted and re-polyurethaned with a water base x2. an hour later i peep in the room only to find large yellowish streaks all over! while i'd think most friends would politely sugar coat the outcome, mine were honest - "it looks like urine." gah! the help at home depot can't seem to tell their left from their right so we travelled the extra miles to lowe's only to find the help as unhelpful as the HD "paint experts." we picked up white oil based enamel and are hoping that this does the trick. i've read blog after blog about how easy it is to paint wood flooring white but at this point i'm ready to call in the shag wall to wall carpet (in 100F weather no less). according to the folk at the home improvement stores, oil based porch paint is no longer being sold here. my heart is set on white wood floors (in case your wondering why on earth i'd paint over hardwood - the floors are badly stained) but for now i'm stuck with floors that are reminiscent of the floors at the local dive bar:
round 3 update to follow.
round 3 update to follow.
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Gotta love the perfectionism! I'm sure it'll look amazing when you're done & you'll be extra proud for having done the job yourself. Looking forward to seeing the finished results! Feel free to "spam" me when it's through.
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-Jo
I know you've completed the project already (and it looks great btw) but I just wanted to comment about the stained floors. We had the same problem in my living room when we tried to refinish the floors, they were so beautiful (we have white oak) except for some spots that were dark from someones messy dog (at least I hope it was a dog). We bought wood bleach and it took out the spots, except now we had light spots instead of dark ones, gah! Eventually, during a larger construction project, we hired someone to refinish the dining room floors (which we tried but could not do ourselves). He insisted that he had to stain the floors dark, at first I didn't agree but then he showed me that the stain was the only way to get the floor to me one cohesive color. And that is how we ended up with dark wood floors, which now we LOVE, and so does everyone who visits. So just FYI, if you ever decide to strip the floors, that's what you can do.
ReplyDeleteAlso, after having someone refinish the floors for us, I will probably never do it myself again, it was actually cheaper and faster to have someone else do it.