Question 1: Just had a new cherry floor installed in my kitchen and they used two coats of Oil Modified Poly gloss for the finish. Beautiful. I installed the new cabinets and appliances and scratched up the finish pretty good in places. OK to do a very light sanding and put a third and final coat on myself to hide the scratches and give the floor a final high-gloss look?
Question 2: What do you consider to be the best Oil Modified Poly brand out there?
Thanks.
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Greetings Michael,
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Three coats is generally a pretty good number. At four, it can start looking too plastic like. Your plan sounds good to me.
As for best brand, it depends on what is available in your area. Ideally, try to get some from your installers. Then you know you have a match. What you are looking for is high solids content. 40% is about the max. However, finding out the solids content is hard, as producers consider it "proprietary" information.
Are you sure you want glossy? It shows scratches the most.
gloss does amplify every flaw, but it is also the highest solids content. A satin is a gloss thinned by de-glosser
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Hey Piffen, it's a long time ago, but I recall using some water based poly, sold to me by the same people I bought an Apollo HVLP unit. You bought gloss, and then could add de-glosser, but it wasn't a volume thing....it only took a very little of the stuff to step from glossy to satin to flat.....
yes, very little reduces viscosity and sheen - but does change percentage overall.
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I agree with others who suggest a lower gloss finish. Semi-gloss or satin still has a nice reflective quality, but wears much better for the reasons already cited.
I did that in my previous house and did about 5 coats, but i was preparing it for future use as a rental property so i just wanted to seal it up good. Looking back, 3 or 4 coats would have been fine. I got excellent advice here that you should use gloss for all undercoats and save the satin for the top coat to avoid it looking cloudy.
I'm with the others, tone it down, satin is perfect in the kitchen, it ain't a car. By the way, how did the floor get that messed up, no protection at all???
I don't know how "gleaming hardwood floors" became desirable. It looks so unnatural (that is: plastic-coated) to me. Why use wood at all if you want the look and feel of plastic?
A nice satin finish gives it the classic rubbed-oil look. Use the gloss for durability underneath the satin top coat.
---mike...
Edited 3/30/2009 9:42 pm ET by MadisonRenovations
Edited 3/30/2009 9:44 pm ET by MadisonRenovations
Well put. glossy wood looks wrong to me too, but I couldn't pinpoint why.
If you're:
UWS goto 96th (north side) & WEA.
UES goto 106 & 2nd Ave (west side).
DT goto Lafayette (west side) and Bleeker.
Each of these floor finish suppliers will be able to direct you to what's available and quality.
We try to apply HG oil finish for the first 1 or 2 coats (to build the finish) and then a satin for the topcoat. I agree with the others that HG is garish. It also shows every flaw and wear. Very unforgiving, especially for a first timer.
To dull the finish, you can also simply add a bit of mineral spirits to HG and that cuts the sheen without buying special material of which you'll only use a bit.
Flay your Suffolk bought-this-morning sole with organic hand-cracked pepper and blasted salt.
Thrill each side for four minutes at torchmark haut. Interrogate a lemon.
Embarrass any tough roots from the samphire. Then bamboozle till it's al dente with that certain je ne sais quoi.
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Although brand compatability should not be an issue, I would want to use the same brand as what has been put down allready just to play it safe.
Ditto to Ericpaulson, if you use another brand there maybe warranty issues
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One more thing - Be sure to screen and then vacuum and tack the existing finish prior to applying next coat.
Frankie
Flay your Suffolk bought-this-morning sole with organic hand-cracked pepper and blasted salt.
Thrill each side for four minutes at torchmark haut. Interrogate a lemon.
Embarrass any tough roots from the samphire. Then bamboozle till it's al dente with that certain je ne sais quoi.
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Thanks for all the good advice. I agree that we should use satin as the final coat -- the gloss is nice for a while, but has started to look a little tacky.I was going to call the guy who did the floors and find out how much he'd charge me to come back and do the final coat. I can't imagine it would be more than a couple hundred bucks.