Solid Hardwood, Engineered and Laminate Flooring - Pickling wood floors question.

I am in the process of pickling my wood floors. I have a contractor out who sanded all the floors down and applied the white pickle stain.

There are areas where the stain had been overlapped and is significantly darker then the rest of the room. Whats he best way to correct this problem? They want to use sandpaper, but I have heard from others that steel wool is the material to use.

Any suggestions how to correct this problem would be a huge help.

Thanks

My suggestion is to let them do there job, and quit trying to tell them how to do it!!

If you want tiny rust spots on your floor, go for it with the steel wool.


They are most likely going to hardplate , before proceeding, and your just seeing what your mind wants to, but you don't really know what your looking at.

Stand back and let them do, what your paying them for. Or your going to get the "why did you call me to do it, you sound like you want to do it really bad, yourself" That is the warning, that you may be close to breaking our contract, you signed with me.

My suggestion is to let them do there job, and quit trying to tell them how to do it!!

Well, I tried that with their first attempt. Yes, I said their first attempt.

They had a lot of darker areas where they overlapped the stain. They said it would blend in with the urethane top coat, WRONG. They hand sanded down the urethane to fix the problem and applied a 2nd coat of Urethane which made it worse. They went back into the house the following day and resanded the entire house AGAIN!!!!

So, now, i ask. How do you handle overlaping stain. BEFORE the urethane is applied!

Skill, it takes skill and time to learn. Hardplating before the finish usually evens it out, unless they got carried away.

Sounds like these guys are rookies, and are learning on your floor... BAD mistake!!
Did you check references on these guys? Did they show you their liability insurance requirements? How long have these guys been in business? Do they even have a contract with you, or has this been a totally verbal contract?

Did you get other quotes for the job? If so, did you go with the least expensive??????

Hardplating before the finish usually evens it out


what exactly is Hardplating?