Hardwood flooring experts?

[Julian]

So we have hardwood floors throughout our ground floor, and they are ok most places, but in a few spots the wear is really starting to show. Any tips of if I can do something to address the areas of wear (see below). This tends to be where chairs are moved the most. Can I reseal/coat them with anything? Would it make those areas look too different (they look different already as you can see)?

 

[Murf'n'surf]

You need to address the problem of the bar stool legs first. Get felt pads on those legs! Then a sand and restain/clear is in order.

 

[Lurch]

Yep - Felt pads will help, but they'll need to be replaced as they collect dirt. Old English scratch cover works to hide the scratches somewhat if you don't want to do a whole floor sand/refinish.

 

[mark_m]

You need to address the problem of the bar stool legs first. Get felt pads on those legs! Then a sand and restain/clear is in order.

Once you go down the sand and restain path it can be a tricky road. We have white oak floors that we’re stained dark color and had it all sanded down and everything on the floor refinished.

I worry that if you start to sand and refinish you will have to keep going…

 

[Jim_in_Delaware]

Worse case you could have the flooring refinished. Had this done a couple of years ago, before we sold our last home. Oak does refinish nicely. I laid maple flooring in my last house, looked great new, but paid someone to refinish it (took them two tries and I still wasn't completely happy with the results.)

Jim

 

[jdkaeser]

Had a guy clean and seal some hardwood we had in one of our restaurants, he used Holloway House Floor Luster (see Link below). I was genuinely shocked at the results. I would maybe give it a try first before going the route of refinishing. May have to do it every couple of months? Just a thought.

https://www.hollowayhouse.net/shop/hardwood-floors/quick-shine-hardwood-luster

 

[Julian]

Thanks for all the replies! This was a video I found on the topic:

How to Refinish Wood Floors without Sanding

How to Refinish Wood Floors without Sanding! If you have antique floors with square nails, or want to save money and the mess, this tutorial is for you.

www.prettyhandygirl.com

Might give that or the Holloway a try.

We had felt on those chairs but it keeps coming off. We are trying to find smaller felt condoms to put on them--we used these on other chair legs and they work great....just not found ones narrow enough for these chairs yet.

These work great.....but are too big for the small metal legs....