I have embarked on a small project. Want to restore old country house.Lots of beams, wood flooring, old furniture.All in all a lot of sanding.Some of it is painted ( couple of layers), some of it is stained, but I hope not to remove too much material. Can anyone give me an advice on which tools to use for the job? Thank you.
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I was thinking more on the line of sanding off a layer of wood.I tried with sanding disc attachment on an angle grinder, but it clogs up quickly, it is really annoying?It seems it will take ages ...Do you know any good ones?
Hudson Carpentry
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For beams etc, grit blast.
If you want to remove paint by hand sanding is a waste of time. You will need to scrape off the paint/varnish with the help of heat or chemical before sanding. For beams (after removal of paint etc) go with a powerful palm sander or detail sander, the lighter the machine the more thankful your arms will be.
If you want to remove paint by hand sanding is a waste of time. You will need to scrape off the paint/varnish with the help of heat or chemical before sanding. For beams (after removal of paint etc) go with a powerful palm sander or detail sander, the lighter the machine the more thankful your arms will be.
petermillard
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If the surfaces are reasonably flat, then sanding can be the fastest way to strip old paint and get back to bare wood; I do this a lot for e.g. sash window refurbs. The most agressive sander I own is a Festool RAS115 rotary sander - basically a spinning disc like an angle grinder, but with dust collection; no, the dust collection isn't great, but it's 100 times better than a disc on a grinder. I wouldn't use it inside an occupied house, though, unless the room was completely sealed. There's a RAS180 as well, but only if you have (or want) arms like pop-eye.
Next choice would be a Festool Rotex - it's heavier, more versatile but not as aggressive as the RAS. Mafell and (I think) Makita do their versions of the Rotex as well; a search for 'gear driven random orbital sander' should throw up the variants. After that you're into a decent random orbital and orbital sander, detail sander for the corners, edges etc.. etc.. For flooring, use a floor sander - probably easiest just to hire one as you need it, though you do sometimes see them come up on eBay if you have a lot to do.
None of these are particularly cheap options btw, but they should have good resale value, so on a longer-term project a 'buy it, use it and sell it on' approach can work out pretty well.
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Next choice would be a Festool Rotex - it's heavier, more versatile but not as aggressive as the RAS. Mafell and (I think) Makita do their versions of the Rotex as well; a search for 'gear driven random orbital sander' should throw up the variants. After that you're into a decent random orbital and orbital sander, detail sander for the corners, edges etc.. etc.. For flooring, use a floor sander - probably easiest just to hire one as you need it, though you do sometimes see them come up on eBay if you have a lot to do.
None of these are particularly cheap options btw, but they should have good resale value, so on a longer-term project a 'buy it, use it and sell it on' approach can work out pretty well.
HTH Pete
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