Home Improvement Thread 2: Electric Redo the Loo

also those pencil lines are from me. they help guide the next grit. also v special shout out to pete’s hardwood floors (https://www.peteshardwoodfloors.com/) in st. paul/minneapolis for their bible of a website. i’m going to send them money because the knowledge they share is fucking invaluable. if anyone here is by them and ever wants to do something with hardwood floors, look them up. they are the best.

okay time to put on dirty clothes and a tyvek suit and sweat all the water out of my body bye!!
 
not yet but i will! probably in a different room though cause i got a whole second floor.

here are some before/afters of some areas and i CANNOT BELIEVE I GOT SO MUCH OF THIS DAMAGE OUT.

also i look like i’m cooking meth. okay, pictures:
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This is seriously impressive, well done. When you're finished I've got an entire main floor you can come do... it's in Canada though so you might need to take a bus or something.
 
not yet but i will! probably in a different room though cause i got a whole second floor.

here are some before/afters of some areas and i CANNOT BELIEVE I GOT SO MUCH OF THIS DAMAGE OUT.

also i look like i’m cooking meth. okay, pictures:
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EDIT: by afters i mean after sanding with 24 grit only... and i haven’t done all the edges which is why the edges still look like shit. i have to finish edging with 24 grit, then drum sander @ 36 grit + edger @ 36, then drum @ 60 + edger @ 60, then drum @ 80 + edger @ 80 - and THEN pole sand the edger marks and hand scrape/sand corners and around door frames.

i am dead. and it feels great.
Thoes floors looks SOOOOOO much better! 😍

How long did it take you? I'm thinking of doing this down the road with my new place
 
not yet but i will! probably in a different room though cause i got a whole second floor.

here are some before/afters of some areas and i CANNOT BELIEVE I GOT SO MUCH OF THIS DAMAGE OUT.

also i look like i’m cooking meth. okay, pictures:
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EDIT: by afters i mean after sanding with 24 grit only... and i haven’t done all the edges which is why the edges still look like shit. i have to finish edging with 24 grit, then drum sander @ 36 grit + edger @ 36, then drum @ 60 + edger @ 60, then drum @ 80 + edger @ 80 - and THEN pole sand the edger marks and hand scrape/sand corners and around door frames.

i am dead. and it feels great.
Did you end up having to replace any boards? That’s the thing holding me back from starting this same nightmarish project. I have very similar floors, but there’s easily a dozen boards that need to be pulled and replaced. I have no idea how to do that.

Edit: ok, that site *is* amazing. There was a video and everything.
 
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Dropped like two grand on exterior lights for the house. I could probably install them myself since I'm just replacing existing lights but I'm scared of electrical so I might not...
Anything plumbing and I call a plumber. Anything electrical, I call an electrician. I don't mess around with anything that requires an apprenticeship to do it.
Having trouble picturing what 2 grand of exterior lights looks like. Are these automatic lights for your front porch, automatic side lights, lights for the patio, early Christmas decorating or...?
Remember, we're talking about $2000 in Canadian dollars...
 
Anything plumbing and I call a plumber. Anything electrical, I call an electrician. I don't mess around with anything that requires an apprenticeship to do it.

Remember, we're talking about $2000 in Canadian dollars...
Two grand worth of lights in Canadian dollars look like this:
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3 of those.

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4 of those.

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4 of those.

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And two of those...
 
I wondered. They photograph really well.
Honestly I was worried about it because I had never seen them in person. But the illusion holds up until you're within a few feet where you can start to see the texture isn't right. But man it's even better than I had hoped...
 
This is seriously impressive, well done. When you're finished I've got an entire main floor you can come do... it's in Canada though so you might need to take a bus or something.
THANK YOU. BECAUSE IT IS. i’ve impressed myself.
Thoes floors looks SOOOOOO much better! 😍

How long did it take you? I'm thinking of doing this down the road with my new place
i’m still not done and i have used muscles i never understood before. mostly, somehow in my back/shoulders. you know that stretch where you extend your arm straight in front of you, and with your other arm, pull the straight arm across your body/shoulder blades? that stretch does something now! i always thought it was just fun because it didn’t hurt. now, it does!
Did you end up having to replace any boards? That’s the thing holding me back from starting this same nightmarish project. I have very similar floors, but there’s easily a dozen boards that need to be pulled and replaced. I have no idea how to do that.

Edit: ok, that site *is* amazing. There was a video and everything.
i did not. and thank god because fuuuuck that. but also - if you have to, you have to. there are some where the grain is super worn and too deep to sand. so i decided to thin some wood filler and fill it and so far, it’s worked. wood filler is usually absolute shit, but the timbermate that pete’s recommends i fucking phenomenal. you can thin it with water, mix colors, and apparently it lasts for fucking ever. i’ve smoothed our some boards already. i also bought 8 more today (i’ve used half of one 8oz jar), each a different color. the color it is when wet is not what it dries to, but what it will look like once it’s been sealed. so it’s mwant to match raw wood.

i don’t know why i’m writing all this aside from the fact that a bunch of people on amazon didn’t know that, and left bad reviews. but they were wrong. timbermate is badass. i want to wood fill everything. and i will.

also - pete’s explains the board replacement stuff. and i think you already found that video. and yeah, they’re awesome. like i wish i lived in st. paul awesome (fun fact: i’ve wanted to live there since i was like, 14. would consider it. still love los angeles, tho)
 
i’m done with the drum sander but i still have all these fucking closets to deal with (drum sander was too big).
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why yes i am laying in the middle of the floor, cherishing the smoothness.

so most of it is sanded, but the rest i have to do with the EDGER. and lemme tell ya - NOT EASY. my tailbone is screaming. is there a muscle there? i want it removed. i hate it. i need @wooha to demonstrate proper form. but also how to you do that in a closet like this: 36C76559-90BE-4833-B38B-CCE8889EDA24.jpeg

looks normal, but it’s tiny (this will either be for shoes, OR Charlie’s room). here’s the whole wall:
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every closet has a slanted wall. why did i think that would be okay.

anyway here are the hallway and landing area
 

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