Resuscitate your wood floors without calling in the army. If you are wanting to put the shine and the finish back on your wood floor Verathane Renewal allows you to lay on a new protective coat without sanding. This tip is from Pixie, who is doing The Cure:
I had great results using Verathane Renewal on a hardwood floor that looked really bad and not worth sanding. It was quite a bit of work, but it was worth it.
This stuff won't work on floors that need a lot of work but will protect an existing finish that is simply scuffed and scratched up. It will therefore keep you from needing to sand and it great for rental situations. Anyone else tried it?
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Comments (9)
nitpicky, I know, but I think it's actually "Varathane" not "Verathane".
The floor I used it on was beyond a little scuffed and scratched - it was grey and beaten down looking with no visible finish to speak of, like a real old Woolworth's floor. Varathane was a last-ditch effort. The transformation was remarkable.
I have a patch in my living room that is a bit worn down from my desk chair. Do you think this is a solution for a 3x3 area in a larger room where the rest of the flooring is fine?
Thanks.
Marnie,
It might work, but I think you can only get a big container of the stuff, which was in the $60 range a couple of years ago. The website has a place where you can send in questions. Also, you might want to search the site for solving a single spot situation like yours.
I haven't tried this yet--bu the box says it covers 230 sq feet--or maybe it's 250. It's priced at about $100 here in Canada.
Let me know what you find out Marnie--I don't quite need this much coverage as well!
is it me, or are there no instructions/detailed info about this product? I want to know everything about it and how to do it ect. where can I get this info online?
You might not have great luck patching within a room with this product. We used it to clean up a stair landing that was getting much more wear and tear than the adjoining wood floor rooms and found while the landing looked great afterwards, our attempts at demarking the landing from the other two rooms (at the doorways) didn't turn out as well as we would have liked.
That said, it goes on quickly and looks quite nice when its done. Not as great a truly refinished floor, but not bad for virtually no mess and very little work.
I just did step 1 and step 2 w/the Renewal product. Now i plan to apply a Vera Waterbased (High Gloss) product, instead of the one in the box. Has anyone out there every did what I'm about to do?
Please advise.
I used the Renewal system on a Parquet floor in a bedrooma nd a hallway with decent results. The problem I encountered was when the first coat dried it left very tiny sporadic bubbles in different areas. I made sure I used enough product and very light pressure like the manufacturer suggested but it did not seem to solve the problem completely. when the finsih dried, the areas where there were no bublles is perfect. The floor was cleaned to the max. The manufacturer could give me no other suggestions so I may not recommend it to anyone else. The color is just as pretty as the day the floor was laid but the bubbles just killed the fnish. The 2nd coat was no better.