Peeling Polyurethane Hardwood Floors

The mix will serve as your polyurethane stripper strong enough to remove the finish but unable to penetrate the wood and disturb the stain if quickly.

Peeling polyurethane hardwood floors.

Never mix oil and water base. The best way to fix a peeling floor is to sand it down to bare wood and restart the finishing process. For example it s not uncommon for old floors to start peeling as the old polyurethane topcoat starts to deteriorate. The cure time will then be observed once more.

A floor that is peeling usually has to be resanded. Continue reading finish didn t chemically bond and is lifting off. Without resanding waxes oils and furniture polishes used to clean wood floors seep into the pores of the finish and can prevent the new finish from bonding. I have 2000 square feet of hardwood floors and in some areas the poly looks like it is peeling off.

Nobody likes to see polyurethane peel especially just after refinishing the floor. This often leads to some head scratching trying to figure out how it happened. I ve even heard of floors smoking when two finishes have been mixed scares the snot out of homeowners. They can typically determine the number of coats within the sample the scratch patterns which finishes are on the floor and whether contamination or stain residual is present all of which can give you the.

Peeling finish can be a frustrating issue for floor finishers. If you re not sure why the floor is peeling you can send peelings into a finish lab. Bubbling and peeling will follow. Ultimately you will most likely have to refinish the floor if the polyurethane won t stop peeling.

I have refinished multiple dressers tables chairs beds etc. Sometimes the coats will lay down flat and smooth and look good after the floor finisher has left only to receive a call later that the finish is separating from the floor. Simply abrading the floor and applying a new top coat might not fix the problem. Pour equal parts of lacquer thinner and denatured alcohol into a small empty paint can.

I used an oil based stain and followed that with an oil based poly. Then i used an. Mix with a wooden stir stick scraping into the mixture any lacquer from the base and sides of the can. Your floor will look like an orange peel.

So far i have made one huge mistake. I cleaned all the floors with ammonia and that took the water dirt and wax off of them.