At the end of the third week I worked on my combination of cabinet and laundry. And while the progress seems to have slowed down this week, I only take because I have hit the part of the process that lasts the longest. These tedious steps are also the most important to achieve a wonderful end result. I spent yesterday all day to grind, sand it and grind even more. And I’m so happy that I had sanded all the cabinets until the end of the day, all dust were torn open, and now I am ready for priming and sealing.
I had already carried out a ton of wood filling and filled with wood filler every single nail hole, every screw hole and every joint. I only saw a whole large bathtub wooden filler in this part of the project (this is the one that I use – affiliate link). In addition to the two full large wooden tanks, which I had used to prepare the individual plywood pieces, because I decided to use a lower plywood quality to save money.
And because it slowed me down when I connect my little 5-inch orbital grinder to my Shopvac, I decided to do without the Shopvac and just let the dust fly so that I could do it faster. Fortunately, the temperature was pretty nice outside, so that I could switch off the HLK, open the windows and close the doors to the Master bedroom suite in order to keep the dust contained in this area of the house. There are only a few things that I hate more than have to work with gloves and/or a mask, but not even mask an option yesterday.
After I sanded all day and prepared the cupboards for primers and canting, this is the chaos with which I was left at the end of the day …
It was quite a task to clean up all this dust, but cleaning up the dust was still much easier than trying to grind everything with my grinding to a shopvac all day.
Before I quit for the day, I let most of it tidy up. I still have to give all the cupboards and shelves a quick wiping before I can plan, but that shouldn’t take long.
I’m still not ready with the tedious preparatory work. Everything still has to be canceled, and this will probably be a full -day job or at least one the most of the day. It is also the case of the least preferred part of every project, but it is such an important step to achieve the perfect (or as close as possible) that I strive for.
As you can see, I haven’t attached the pretty molded part yet. My goal is today to grind the rest of the floor to grind the cabinets to remove the current finish and then have all the pretty shape (baseboard and crown shape) installed.
As soon as the nail holes are filled and sanded in the pretty shape, I will prepare all the cupboards.
After the cupboards are primed and dry, I will quickly grind the cupboards with 220 body sand paper and then pluck everything.
The reason why I will springs everything before I throat is that the use of kettle on primed wood and the derivation of the excess boiler is much easier than use on naked wood. If you use kettles on nude wood, it tends to soak more in the bare wood and grab yourself, which makes it a little more difficult to get these beautiful, clean boiler lines.
The primer creates a barrier between the kettle and the bare wood, which soaks it too much into the wood and makes it much easier to get these pretty, clean boiler lines.
I also think that it is much easier to recognize the areas that have to be repelled after preparing the closets. When I try to calculate naked wood, especially with such a large project as this, it is easy to overlook areas, and then these overlooked areas are quite obvious after the Primers progressed. So when I throat naked wood and then prepared the project, I have to go back again and again and vacuum the areas that I overlooked. After years of experience, it is clear that it is so much easier to promote everything first and then chew.
But the entire big grinding is ready and I am so happy that the big step is put off so that I can continue. I really hope that at least I can prepare everything at the end of the weekend. That is the goal. I would like to get color on these cupboards this weekend, but I think that could be too high for a goal. Maybe I can at least get a few color patterns on the cupboards and make my final color decision.
But let’s visit the floors again. Yesterday I found a visualizer tool on the Bona website during one of my breaks from all the loops, with which you can upload a photo and see what any sealing color in your room will look like. Unfortunately, you cannot select the specific types of wood you have, but at least there can be a general idea of what any sealer could look like. So here are the photos it generated.
First of all, this is the disgusting Nordic, which is the lightest, brightest color.
I really think this is too bright and bright for our house. I enjoy seeing it in other houses and I think it’s really nice. But for our house I prefer the wood a touch of warmth.
The next one is Bona Naturalal. I think that still gives a touch of white and at the same time enables the natural wood color.
Yesterday I found many examples of real world on Red Oak, and it’s very pretty on Red Oak, but also very easy.
The next one is Bona ClearSeal. This is just a simple clear seal that preserves the natural color of the wood.
I also found many examples in the real world on this on Red Oak. It is also very pretty.
Next comes Bona Classicsal. This is very popular and works very well with Red Oak.
I really love the look, but there is no guarantee that it would look exactly the same on my red oak floors.
And finally it is a real intensive one, which gives the wood a little warmer tone.
This is my favorite on the floor visualizer. But I have difficulty finding examples of them on Red Oak floors.
My favorites are just the pictures of the pictures from the floor visualizer and are the classics and the intensive ones.
Based on the images created, one of these would make the soil a lot of what I have just illuminated, and still gave me the warmth that I love.
Here is my current soil compared to the classic set …
And here is my current soil compared to the Intenseeal …
So I am still looking for options and search for other real images of these products that are used specifically on Red Oak. Only this morning did I find this example of the classic set that is used on Red Oak, and it looks really pretty. But it also looks different in every room you show depending on the lighting in the room. So it is really difficult to say what the actual color has.
If I only took the pictures created, I would probably choose the Intenseeal. But this name alone scares me a bit. It sounds a bit arrogant. I don’t want to make all the trouble repeating these floors just to get dark with them. I came across this video yesterday and he uses intensseeal, but he does not indicate which types of wood he works. It looks like red oak for my unpleasant eye and it also looks darker than the floor visualizer. I don’t want my floors to be so dark.
Although my favorite with the floor is visualizer that is the intenssee, I have the feeling that the classic will be the one with which I will end. It will give me the warmth that I want without making the floors too dark. But I will give myself a few more days to make my final decision. I really have to have my projects ordered as soon as possible because I cannot move my washing machine and dryer into the closet when the floors are red.
Update: I wanted to add the example of the color color that I would like to use with the floor color. Here is the Valspar Matt on Monday color color with the Bona Classicsal Floor Sealer. I think that’s beautiful !!! Oh my god, when I see them together, I am so excited!
