12-grit sandpaper

We rented a floor buffer to do the task of sanding the floors last week (it has one big, rotating pad). The lowest grit paper that the rental place carried was 36-grit. We used it and although it was working, it still seemed slow and was tearing up the paper faster than we liked. After searching online, Noah found 12-grit paper! Voila! The answer to our needs. We ordered it (along with 9 other successive grits up to 120), and the task of leveling the wood is working now. The 12-grit paper leveled one room after about one day of sanding. Now we are working through the grits of paper. We took a few days break for Mindy to chaperone end-of-school year field trips, but we will rent the sander again on Thursday. Hopefully we will be publishing "finished" wood floors on our blog next week (keeping in mind we are only working on the kitchen, pantry, and dining rooms -- that is all that is installed right now).

And you might be wondering, what does 12-grit sandpaper look like? Well, it looks like someone took a handful of rocks and glued them onto some paper. Seriously. Check out these photos!


12-grit sandpaper


12-grit sandpaper next to 36-grit sandpaper