Building our new house
Hardwood floor installation -- page 2
After the hardwood flooring is laid and nailed to the subfloor, it must be sanded smooth. Sanding is done with a big drum sander as shown in the photo below. A belt of sandpaper rotates through the sander. The sander has a self-contained vacuum cleaner that sucks up the dust raised by the sander. The first pass with the sander uses a rough sandpaper, then, the floor is sanded again using a fine sandpaper. These two photos show the flooring crew sanding the floor in the Great Room.
In the photo above: on the left edge of the photo is the kitchen island with one of the three pendant lights hanging above it; note the fireplace in the back left; two of three ceiling fans.
In the photo above you can see the stone hearth around the fireplace; the openings to the right and left of the fireplace will hold bookcases.
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