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From Kennel to Craft Room / Refinishing the Floors The DIY crew rescues a room with multiple personality disorder. From "DIY to the Rescue" episode DTTR-113

Steve and Jamie Gray have a room with multiple personality disorder. Once a nursery, then a dog kennel, the room features baby pastels and chewed wood. The Grays would like to bring new life to the space and turn it into a craft room. That's where the DIY to the Rescue crew come in.

The space needs to be as versatile as possible for Jamie, who can be found painting furniture or murals one day, creating pottery or sculpture the next. To help the Grays create a functional space, the crew plans to repair the floors, install new cabinets and countertops, and add finishing touches such as window treatments, track lighting, new paint and shelves.

First, the crew brings in a team of professionals to help refinish the floors with a fast-drying, durable, dustless refinishing technique.

Before: the doors are from the room's former existence as a dog kennel...

the walls and floors are dingy and damaged, while faint images of the nursery motif still appear on the walls.

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Refinished Floors: Contractors use a dustless refinishing technique to create gleaming new floors. Here, they add the finishing touches to complete the job.

Contractor's Floor Diary

Products Used to Finish the Grays' Floor:

Bona Sanding Equipment (Bona Universal Sander - 10" belt sander; Bona AdvantEdge - 7" edger; Bona DCS Buffer - 16" rotary 175 rpm buffer; Tampico Brush - on buffer to clean out open seams; Bona DCS Back Vac; Bona DCS Super Vac - hooks to edger and buffer; Bona Power Station Plus - 230/115 voltage regulator)

Bona Abrasives (10" Sanding Belts; 7" siafast Quick Change Edger Discs; 16" Sanding Screens;16" Conditioning Pads; Delta Sheets)

Bona Scrapers (for corners and detail areas--1" and 1-1/2" blades)

Stain and Finish (Bona DriFast Quick Dry Stain in Natural; Bona Traffic Commercial Finish Commercial Satin--2 coats)

MicroPlus Hardwood Mop Kit
Cut-In Pad ( to apply finish)

Original 80-year old plus, yellow pine floor was in decent shape but was very discolored (dark, dark brown) from years of wax, shellac, dirt, grease and grime build-up as the floor was also in the kitchen of the original house. DIY contractors replaced two damaged boards. *No subfloor--installed directly on joists, more than 16" on center, using "hand-cut" nails.

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