Hand Scrape Your Hardwood Floors

The background music suits the agony of that guy, just boosts it somehow...

Wow I've been in the hardwood flooring industry for most my life and you guys that hand scrape your entire floors are ANIMALS!!! Hats off to you guys and beautiful work!!

Guys...the idea here is to make newer floors look old and distressed. Looks great. hats off to the labour put into this, must of cost a fortune.

Ahh, my shoulders are hurting just watching this.

love how you've made the floors so old and original, that's a master craftsman at work. gonna have to try this myself

Been a floorlayer for more than 30 years. Not an aspect of the trade that i would choose to specialize in. Much regard to the scraper. I know your pain. What ever doesn't kill you...? I can appreciate how you switch posture and grip and share the burden of the labour over as many muscles as possible. Cheers and respect.

My floors look distressed enough as is without doing it on purpose. Lol

Wow.  That was a lot of work.  Cannot imagine how tired you were when finished.

that's a lot of work. I sanded a customer home a long time ago to a mirror finish, I was so proud of my work then the customer beat the floor with chains to create a country look. I almost died all that work for nothing. Glad I don't do it anymore and don;t miss it. Hard work. Good video.

Very cool! How long did that job take? and what did you finish it with?

Those chatter marks are insane. There's no way I do that myself or pay whatever it would cost to have someone else do it, but I do admire the finished product. Incredible amount of character in those floors.

All I can say is worn out shoulders. I'll stick to my big sander.

Since 1987, I am still doing wood floors, with Sanders .The work you do is awesome. Hats off to you.

“Repetitive Stress Injury: The Video” I jest, I jest! Mad props to all masters of their craft.

Legend has it, he is still there to this very day..just scraping away like a mad man.

If you had an Olympics for hand scraped hardwood floors this dude is the gold medal winner and it's not even close! I do floors for a living out in Oakland and I can't imagine how fit in the core you have to be to do this. Floored.

I was wondering if you could explain why you did that specific pattern? What I don't quite understand is did you then leave those areas that you didn't scrape as is or did you sand them down in some other fashion that you just didn't show him the video?

textured flooring perhaps a good refinish if there are alot of imperfections or damage in the original install and don't want to replace and start over? same idea as textured walls and cielings yes?

That's a lot of work. I refinished the floors at a house. When I went there, I took an orbital floor sander. Works great with 36 grit and leaves a nice nice finish with just a little tooth for traction. You have to be careful of the swirls. In the corners I use a scraper to blend in where the sandar won't reach. Then, when I started to sand, I got almost no results except to clog up the sanding discs. Turns out the floor had several coats of some sort of floor polish which just melted and gummed everything up. So, I scraped the entire floor by hand. Once the wood was exposed I was still not able to sand so I re-scraped very carefully. In the end a nice smooth surface was had and the customer was quite satisfied. btw- a traditional scraped floor does not come out looking like the second floor of an industrial factory. It should be smooth and even as you will see in older historic homes which were hand planed and scraped. The floor in this video will be nearly impossible to be kept clean, especially in a kitchen and dining area; unless of course the home owners never actually cook there.

Looks great. Why does the baseboard have such a huge gap from the floors? I have wood and 5in base and no gaps.