Help me, FL!

[fredericks]

*sigh*

Say, hypothetically, that you step on your newly polished and poly'd hardwood floor, and you mess up a small (say, 3" by 2") area. The stain is okay, but the poly is dirty, smudged, and otherwise shot. How would you go about repairing the damage short of calling up the floor company and asking them to do a last-second fix-it job on your dime?

I should add that I figured I'd just have to fine-sand off the dirty poly and put another coat on the area (carefully, of course), but everywhere I turn online I'm reading that it's nigh impossible to repair poly. Again, help!

Comments

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Can I sand by hand, or do I have to use a sander? And will that ruin the polish underneath?

[captainschlumpy.livejournal.com]

I would do it by hand. That way you can go super duper slow and check your progress. If you use really fine paper and go very slow you shouldn't ruin the polish. Also, if the floor guy did it properly there should be more than one coat of poly on the floor. My guess is that you just damaged the top layer because it didn't set quite long enough. So you'll basically just be taking off the top layer with the paper and not even reaching the polish.