If you’ve ever sanded wood at home, there’s a decent chance you own a belt sander – and you might be wondering if the tool can be used to sand your floor. “These powerful tools use a continuous loop ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For many do-it-yourself families, summer is wood floor sanding season. Add that to ...

Have you been thinking about refinishing hardwood floors in your home? Have those glowing floors you fell in love with back when you bought your house turned dull in certain spots—or all over? Does ...

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, ...

Q: We recently moved into a resale house that has some wood floors. The floors really need to be refinished, but I don’t want to pay someone to do it. How do I go about refinishing the floor? A: ...

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 ...

As I mentioned in my earlier post about plaster repair, we’re down to the maid’s room in our restoration. It’s 11×6, and the w/d take up some of that floor space (they’re mounted/leveled on marine ply ...