We are selling our house, we have a room with a solid wooden floor that was a bit beaten up.
My neighbour is a time served cabinet/furniture maker so has very high standards.
Anyway he said $150-170 in wood stain plus $75-90 hire of floor sander + $30-40 minimum in sanding belts = $300+ labour mmmmnnn.
"it will take 3 days work to achieive a quality finish, I buy carpet for $650, then its done in an hour or two" he said
This is a nightmare so I used my small electric sander and tried a small area.( total area to sand is 440sq ft)
First surprise it sanded really easily .
I went to look at stain, WOW it's expensive.
However fencing stain is not........... so I hired a sander $50 used 3 belts at $7.50 fencing stain $30 + 1 tin of good stain /varnish $30
Total was $117.50
it took a day as well
When my neighbour came back from his weekend away he was amazed at how good it looked for the price.
great saving
