A recoat doesn t involve sanding mark says.
Clean and recoat hardwood floors.
Unlike refinishing you are not removing the original finish on the floor.
You may recoat a floor to completely change the color of the finish.
We walk you through e.
Always clean the floor before testing for contaminants and before any maintenance coat.
Recoating in its simplest definition is applying a fresh coat of finish to your hardwood floors.
While it s called screening or alternately scuffing or buffing in some cases it s using a fine grit sandpaper to take off the top layer of finish.
Recoating is often confused with refinishing a hardwood floor.
It is important to test for the presence of these contaminants before recoating the floor to avoid failure.
Recoating a typical floor 200 sq.
Or so is about half the cost of sanding and refinishing it.
The process includes using a wood floor cleaning product recommended by the wood floor finish manufacturer.
It s actually applying another coat of finish to the top of the floors to bring back the luster and life of that finish so you don t.
To screen and recoat hardwood floors you subject the floor to a very light abrasive.