It s about protecting your investment.
Rolling vs t bar hardwood floor.
Rolling is typically a more delicate process.
The best chair glides for hardwood floors protecting your hardwood floors is more than just about the floor.
Whether you spent time and money restoring your wood floors yourself or hired someone to install brand new floors it s worth protecting your them as much as you can.
With that being said metal wheels such as cast iron forged steel and ductile steel caster wheels will carve into wooden floors and degrade them.
This gets the finish down fast and agitates the floor very little more agitation to the finish makes it look worse.
But if you want to roll you can as long as the product is formulated for rolling.
It s a nice feature but it can also trip you up when you re walking around the mat.
Before you put your new applicator to use comb out the lambswool or cover it with a piece of tape and rip off the tape to get rid of any loose or stray fibers.
For example a heavier bar creates a thinner finish.
A lambswool applicator on a wood block is the recommended method for applying oil based polyurethane to a hardwood floor.
Hickory hardwood floors for example may be hard enough to resist dimples from high heels or pets nails.
Take care not to overwork the finish which.
This speeds up application and it also holds a lot of finish.
A roller simply picks up the finish and then lays it back down uniformly rather than pulling or dragging the finish as we do with t bars or lambswool applicators.
You ll prevent most lap lines when rolling due to how the roller applies finish to the floor.
Think of it as a roadside curb for your mat.
Some companies also manufacture a lambswool sleeve that can be slipped onto a t bar.
Make sure to keep a wet edge.
Certain types of hardwood floors are more durable and better suited for life s challenges.
But if you ve recently bought a lambswool applicator be careful.
Normally you can simply pull finish on a floor that is not multidirectional because streaking is not as likely.
T bars come in different weights depending on the desired mil thickness of the finish.
The fibers tend to get stuck in wet finish.
Tips for pulling wood floor finish with a t bar applicator.
Another option is rolling finish on with a inch or 3 8 inch roller.
If your finish can be rolled use a roller instead of a t bar.