Adding Top Coat To Prefinished Flooring

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Adding top coat to prefinished flooring.

I was thinking of installing pre finished hard maple diy. Can i really do this. Sweep and you re ready to go. If the prefinished floor is solid wood sand down the floor and then restain and reseal the floor with urethane there s no need to worry about damaging the floor.

The tough uv cured factory applied top coat lasts longer than a typical one applied on site. If your floor is made of engineered wood you may still be able to strip and refinish it yourself depending on how thick the top layer of the wood is. With pre finished flooring there is no mess and smell associated with finishing the floor within your living environment. Instead of the multiple day process of sanding staining and then applying three polyurethane top coats to unfinished wood these diy friendly floors can be put down in a single day.

On a parquet floor the grain direction doesn t matter. Adding top coat to pre finished flooring like paul i would leave it as is. The pre finished urethane coat provides a thicker more uniform coating than can be done manually. Someone once told me that i could apply a coat or two of sealer on top of the pre finished floor which will help protect all the spill from getting in between the floor another diy.

Always apply finish with the grain direction. It looks good for a long time. If you are using water based polyurethane. If yes what kind of sealer do you recommend.