Have I really not posted ANYTHING but craigslist couch updates? Shame on me.
Here's a quick little update before I make another long "what should I do" post.
I finished the floors and they look great. I ended up using 4 coats of polyurethane instead of the 3 I planned (and the 5 that maybe I should have done) and I used two different kinds of polyurethane. On the first two coats, I used Minwax Fast-Drying Polyurethane with a gloss finish. I didn't sand between these coats and I started to feel bad about it so I sanded after the second coat and switched to Minwax Super-Fast Drying Polyurethane for Floors, because supposedly, you don't have to sand between coats if you don't let it dry for too long. Well, I came back after the 3rd coat and hated it. there were thin spots everywhere. I did the last coat with the original Polyurethane and was happy again.
Some pictures from the process..
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| Down to the wood! |
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| Choosing the stain.. |
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| stain, no gloss |
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| A moth landed in the wet polyurethane! |
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| I felt the need to add a reminder of what the floors USED to look like.. |
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