Even freshly washed and waxed floors.
Stripping wood floors without a machine.
Waxed floors such as linoleum or vinyl can flake or become yellow due to age or too many layers of wax.
Buffing or abrading the existing coat before refinishing or alternatively applying a chemical etching kit.
If your hardwood floor is only lightly worn damaged or scratched you may be able to refinish it without sanding.
Machineless stripping is designed for floors and areas inaccessible to floor machine equipment.
How to remove old wax from floors without chemicals.
In this video i teach a college student how to give new life to an old hardwood floor in her apartment.
Stripping floor without machinery.
There are two basic methods.
Using a sanding machine manual stripping allows you to sand down the floors and get all of the old finishes off.
Sweep and dust mop floor.