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"If you already have a polyurethane finish on the floor, and you catch it before the finish wears off completely, you may only need to recoat, not refinish," she said, explaining that most hardwood floors today have a coating of oil- or water-based polyurethane that can easily be recoated.
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A new restaurant kitchen was created at the back, with prep areas in the basement; the lounge's scarred wooden bar was left intact, not refinished.
The floors had not been refinished in decades, and a chain-smoking caretaker had left one bedroom's walls so stained with the residue of his habit that it resembled a 19th-century French bistro.
However, the floors in the other house had not been refinished in years.
No other likely sources of PCBs were identified in either home by inspection, and wood floors in home 2 had not been refinished in many years.
The resident of home #2 did not recall what particular floor finish was used in the 1950s and 1960s, but the home had wood floors that had not been refinished in many years.
@NewarkLady7 can't believe u didn't see refinished basement until now!
Her one concern about engineered floors is that they can't be refinished as many times as solid wood, because sanding the top layer more than once or twice may expose the base layer underneath.
There are no dents that can't be refinished, so timber-built two-wheelers can be, in Slow Design parlance, heirloom pieces.
Older floors that haven't been refinished usually have a shellac, lacquer, or varnish finish, and while these are technically also "surface-seals," they aren't nearly as durable as the more modern finishes; for the purposes of this article, they will therefore be placed under the "other" category alongside unfinished and waxed floors.
If your cabinets are made of particleboard or are plastic laminate, you won't be able to refinish them anyway.
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