Some guys will tape down red rosin paper (after hanging/before finishing) and if you don’t drag stuff around, it’ll help keep the hods off the floor. Plastic is too slippery to work on. So, now you have a bunch of dried hods on some paper over the floor. Maybe worth it, maybe not. I think that unless you’re a slob, it’s easier to keep up with it as you go. Put some drops down to walk on while not working, keeps the mess confined. Best of luck.
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Normally we clean as best as we can after the sanding and clean the gobs when we lay the floor but our last house was a timber frame with a 2x6 t&g second floor. In order to keep dust out of the joints where it could filter through for years, we covered the floor with narrow rolls of housewrap, staple at the edges and taped in the middle and at the seams. It took about 7 man-hours to do which seemed a lot at the time, but it held up perfectly and really kept the floor clean. Our floor finisher pleaded with us not to use rosin paper over a finished floor if there is any possibility of it getting wet. He once had to redo a floor that was stained by the dye in the paper.
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
There's a guy in town that uses housewrap on his floors. Once the deck is down, he rolls out the housewrap just as if he was wrapping his walls He uses a fair amount of staples so it doesn't blow off. I think he tapes his seams.
He uses white colored stuff so his chalk lines for his walls show up well. And he leaves the stuff down until his drywall is sanded. He claims that the subfloor looks the same as it did the day he put it down.
The warning on most housewrap labels says not to use it on walking surfaces, as it's slippery. But I helped this guy on one of his houses and that didn't seem to be a problem. I do remember that a couple of high traffic areas wore through the housewrap, and had to be patched. Now I think he just tacks a piece of plywood down where there's a lot of traffic to prevent problems.
cardboard, its cheap, free & tough.
I wouldn't spend the time covering the subfloor. No matter what you do drywall filler will get on the floor. I would spend the time sweeping, scraping, and then vacuming house after the drywall is done. Vacume in the corners and in the gap between subfloor and drywall. The cleaner the better before painter sprays because any dust will blow up on to wet paint.
If it was finished flooring I would spend the time to cover it with the heavy poly and tape and maybe thin cheap osb.
Ace