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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!!
Yeah and those of us looking for info on how to make our naturally shitty floors look less shitty and don't have the money to pay someone for it are a little bothered by how much money people spend to get what we already have and can't afford to get rid of. If you want crappy looking floors just buy a house that had nice floors 50 years ago, then have a couple kids and a dog, and you'll get them for the low low price of free.
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.
That’s pretty amazing, I started in the trade about 1986. Still installing and sanding,while I have done this a couple times, I have always sanded the finish off first.absolutely no reason not to,except maybe you don’t have a sander.
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.
lol that must have been a good wtf is going on moment. Hey, man, if the customer wants to set it on fire, it's whatever. He paid you for your work and you did your work. All else doesn't matter.
My first staircase i did all by myself was in this big house. 20 steps to ne exact. Had them looking sooo good! Came back a month later and some one put a carpet runner all the way down... 😔
Beautiful job, I’m assuming those are oak floors? May I ask what brand and color stain did you use? Also, what brand and type of polyurethane did you use, matte, satin etc.? The reason I’m asking is because the oak flooring in our family room looks identical to your finished floor, color is almost perfect and we have a couple areas, approximately 2‘ x 3‘ that need to be redone. Thank you so much
The feel of the wood while you walk on it feels amazing most people are more interested in cheap modern products thst look like wood but in reality is nothing more than plastic stuck on top of particle board. This floor looks awesome
Thank you complements are very much appreciated in this line of work. I’ve been doing this for 28 years now as a Flooring tech that is. Been doing this for 10. I waited too long to get into this. LOL
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.
That floor looks awesome compared to the eighties look it had before . All the negative comments are your personal view my personal opinion the new floor looks amazing a true craftsman not afraid of hard work
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.
Looked up the video just to see if people understand what I do all day. Glad I'm not the only one I've been doing this since I was a teen and it's how I make a living. God bless.
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.
Hats off to the guy doing the work! Looks great! Wood floors don't have to be perfect and flat, and I'm sure that isn't the look the homeowners were going after. I'd need to take a long vacation before the job got started, and immediately after! 😂
We put in a floor of 5/4" rough cut maple at a camp that 30 years later became a home and the 70+ year old guy refinished the floor like this. He had a large hand plane that he made wich had a high speed steel blade with a negative angle. He did about 800sqft in about 5 days and it came out awsome just like this. Nice work!
Wow. Awesome work! We did that on a reclaimed wide plank pine job in a historic home. I had two strong young guys on my side. Nearly killed us. I like the scraping tool! Looks like you retrofitted the installation mallet and screwed a scraper blade into it. Great idea. Gives you weight and leverage.
So I'm getting ready to build a hand hewn maple wood barn beam cabin and I've been trying to think of what I can do for a floor and now I know what to do thanks to your video. Thanks !.
Incredible work. Back breaking, artistic and a very unique look. All the people giving this video a "thumbs down" are probably ready to faint at the sight of a hard day's work. For all the haters, stick to your belt sanders and your cookie cutter floors. Bravo my man.
I scrape floors: for a look back, you might enjoy the results of a search for Gustave Caillebotte and "Les Raboteurs de Parquet" painted in 1875 - now in the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.
That's exactly the painting that sprang to mind when I stumbled across this video (got it on my computer). But I'm guessing that back then they did it to remedy the 'distressed look'.
This looks awesome! I go into a lot of really expensive new homes and most have floors like this. Smooth is out! If you can you afford this is what people want these days.
they do sell an electric plainer that does that same thing, I own it and I have to say it makes it a hell of a lot easier. But you are a beast for all that hand work my man and those floors look awesome
I did flooring for 30 years my friend I have to say you are amazing and an animal that is some hard ass work true craftsman I appreciate you and what hard work you do
I scraped 200 ft. of Hickory for the first time in over ten years today - I wish I had that scraper.. BTW, nice job, I think I'll call you next time :)
When arthritis and tendonitis sets in you will love the sander once again. Your career doing this will be very short but i wish you luck and good health while you still have it
You scape floors for sure. I tried to sand a floor but the finish gummed up the paper. Ended up doing similar with my electric hand planer. Charge large brother as that looks hard on the knees and lower back. Nice finished product.
Quality work. I have typically seen the entire surface of the floor scraped without leaving the strips between passes. I understand that may help you get a slightly flatter floor. It is too bad that so many posters don't understand the look or the goal.
Your crazy man. I've been sanding floors for 20 years now and have never seen someone actually destress and scrape a floor like that before. Very impressive and freaking hard a## work. I would have charged $20 a sq ft to do something that insane...
rollerblading geek ....knowing the worth of quality skilled labor doesn't make him greedy or lazy. Not knowing the worth of quality skilled labor makes you entitled and cheap. I am glad I saw the demonstration so i can appreciate the extremely hard work that went into that floor. $20/sq.ft. is fair for the brutal work and those results, if that's what you're going for. I couldn't afford it, and I'm not willing to do this kind of back breaking work on my own. Bitching about what someone thinks is a fair price is distasteful.
and bitching about someone else's opinion is distasteful. $20 per square foot is $220 per square metre. At the speed he's doing it in the video, that's approx. $220 per minute which is $13,200 per hour. No one's forcing you to do that job but that's more than a highly educated heart surgeon earns & perhaps thinking you're worth that much makes you the entitled one.
rollerblading geek Damn right, I don't give a damn what a heart surgeon makes, a heart surgeon's job is tedious and technical..NOT hard labor, so in my opinion a skilled hardwood floor guy should get MORE than a heart surgeon, and that's MY opinion
wow amazing. I'll be doing this as we have two finishes on oak in our place. While its a lot of work is cuts down on dust and clean up. And I prefer a natural look, wood is never perfect and having more texture is what I love about wood. Well done.
Your hard work results in beautiful floors. Your body will torture you in a very few short years to come. I admire you and hate to think of what it’s costing you in the long run.
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!!
Fkn beasts. No way I'm doin that I'll stick with my Hummel
I hated just doing the closets and corners!
The background music suits the agony of that guy, just boosts it somehow...
😂😂😂😂
Haha perfect. I literally showed my wife and said "poor guy, respect"
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.
Yeah and those of us looking for info on how to make our naturally shitty floors look less shitty and don't have the money to pay someone for it are a little bothered by how much money people spend to get what we already have and can't afford to get rid of.
If you want crappy looking floors just buy a house that had nice floors 50 years ago, then have a couple kids and a dog, and you'll get them for the low low price of free.
ahahah...I was embarrassed of my wood floors until I saw this video...who knew that rich pp and I would share the same wood floors.
Why not just buy junk to start with and cut out the middle man?
That looks nasty, doesn't go at all with the rest of the house, what were they thinking.
fisharmor you have no idea what a good or bad wood floor looks like
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.
love how you've made the floors so old and original, that's a master craftsman at work. gonna have to try this myself
Ahh, my shoulders are hurting just watching this.
Since 1987, I am still doing wood floors, with Sanders .The work you do is awesome. Hats off to you.
That’s pretty amazing, I started in the trade about 1986.
Still installing and sanding,while I have done this a couple times,
I have always sanded the finish off first.absolutely no reason not to,except maybe you don’t have a sander.
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.
lol that must have been a good wtf is going on moment. Hey, man, if the customer wants to set it on fire, it's whatever. He paid you for your work and you did your work. All else doesn't matter.
brokenarrowez dude I had someone hit it with bolts and nails I about passed out after
brokenarrowez why don't you sand anymore
My first staircase i did all by myself was in this big house. 20 steps to ne exact. Had them looking sooo good! Came back a month later and some one put a carpet runner all the way down... 😔
Beautiful job, I’m assuming those are oak floors? May I ask what brand and color stain did you use? Also, what brand and type of polyurethane did you use, matte, satin etc.? The reason I’m asking is because the oak flooring in our family room looks identical to your finished floor, color is almost perfect and we have a couple areas, approximately 2‘ x 3‘ that need to be redone. Thank you so much
“Repetitive Stress Injury: The Video”
I jest, I jest! Mad props to all masters of their craft.
The feel of the wood while you walk on it feels amazing most people are more interested in cheap modern products thst look like wood but in reality is nothing more than plastic stuck on top of particle board. This floor looks awesome
Not everyone can afford maintaining wood. Labor is expensive
Holy hell, that's a shit load of effort. Well done sir, looks amazing
Gorgeous floors. The character put into them is unreal.
Real character comes from a lifetime of use. Doing this on purpose cheapens the aesthetic
Legend has it, he is still there to this very day..just scraping away like a mad man.
Absolutely gorgeous, as a fellow flooring contractor you knocked it out of the park.
Thank you complements are very much appreciated in this line of work. I’ve been doing this for 28 years now as a Flooring tech that is. Been doing this for 10. I waited too long to get into this. LOL
I've got 21 years under my belt but haven't had a handscraped one yet that wasn't prefinished
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.
That floor looks awesome compared to the eighties look it had before . All the negative comments are your personal view my personal opinion the new floor looks amazing a true craftsman not afraid of hard work
Incredible. I’m about to undertake this task, but this square footage is mind blowing…
Wow, they are BEAUTIFUL! I was exhausted just watching you scrape for 1 minute.
My floors look distressed enough as is without doing it on purpose. Lol
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.
Looked up the video just to see if people understand what I do all day. Glad I'm not the only one I've been doing this since I was a teen and it's how I make a living. God bless.
Wow, now that's dedication! I just gave up scraping a 20'x3' hallway around the edges where the sander wouldn't get cause I was sweating too much :D
Wow. That was a lot of work. Cannot imagine how tired you were when finished.
I don't cry much over hard work...This made me want to cry real tears!
Love the rustic feel to these floors. really makes them look like resealed century old floors
Wow that floor came out beautiful! Floor has so much character! Something a sander would never achieve
In 20 years doing floors work I never did job like that and probably will not do it for the rest of my life ... thanks god! But you did great !
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.
Very nicely done. Difficult labor. Beautiful finished product blends seamlessly with the raised panel walls, doors and trim.
Beautiful. Takes me back to the days as a kid growing up in an old New England house.
wow I will never complain about working again! Good job sir
Dude - You are an Artist...and a Beast.
Hats off to the guy doing the work! Looks great! Wood floors don't have to be perfect and flat, and I'm sure that isn't the look the homeowners were going after. I'd need to take a long vacation before the job got started, and immediately after! 😂
the floor looks darn good. Great job!!!
We put in a floor of 5/4" rough cut maple at a camp that 30 years later became a home and the 70+ year old guy refinished the floor like this. He had a large hand plane that he made wich had a high speed steel blade with a negative angle. He did about 800sqft in about 5 days and it came out awsome just like this. Nice work!
Wow. Awesome work! We did that on a reclaimed wide plank pine job in a historic home. I had two strong young guys on my side. Nearly killed us. I like the scraping tool! Looks like you retrofitted the installation mallet and screwed a scraper blade into it. Great idea. Gives you weight and leverage.
I need to scrape a small area to refinish. Thank you for your demo.
You're a beast !! My back hurt just watching. Nice job.
And the music makes this video so beautiful and dramatic. . Amazing!!
Thank you very much it took me a minute to find music that flowed with my craft that was not copyrighted. LOL
Beautiful and with a great soundtrack.
So I'm getting ready to build a hand hewn maple wood barn beam cabin and I've been trying to think of what I can do for a floor and now I know what to do thanks to your video.
Thanks !.
All I can say is worn out shoulders. I'll stick to my big sander.
Ted shred amen brother!
Madd respect, I've done this process many times light to heavy. I hope you got extaly what you wanted a ft.
I have restored a few hardwood floors! It's an acquired taste for that look but the look is unique and satisfying to a select client
Incredible work. Back breaking, artistic and a very unique look. All the people giving this video a "thumbs down" are probably ready to faint at the sight of a hard day's work. For all the haters, stick to your belt sanders and your cookie cutter floors. Bravo my man.
Thank you! It’s not for everyone. Just a mother option.
Looks absolutely beautiful...but what killer work !
My arms knees and eyes hurt now. Looks amazing
You did a hell of a job my friend you wasn't playing no games with that floor.
This is a young man’s job!
Crazy as it seems, though....the floors look beautiful!
I scrape floors: for a look back, you might enjoy the results of a search for Gustave Caillebotte and "Les Raboteurs de Parquet" painted in 1875 - now in the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.
That's exactly the painting that sprang to mind when I stumbled across this video (got it on my computer). But I'm guessing that back then they did it to remedy the 'distressed look'.
I appreciate this kind of hard work.
deplorable Irishman Amen brother
deplorable Irishman Didn't look that hard, it's not like it was a huge room or indoor sports facility.
@@221Dw scraping floors is about the hardest manual labor there is to do.
Except maybe bein a brick fetcher. or framing laborer
This looks awesome! I go into a lot of really expensive new homes and most have floors like this. Smooth is out! If you can you afford this is what people want these days.
The color and texture are real nice after that.
Massive labor behind this. Really nice result.
they do sell an electric plainer that does that same thing, I own it and I have to say it makes it a hell of a lot easier. But you are a beast for all that hand work my man and those floors look awesome
Wow. Holy abs Batman. Incredible results btw. Good music too- accents the bodily sacrifice that goes into this type of finish.
Good lord, that is hard work indeed ! You are a brave man (you who are doing the scrapping)
Hard work paid off sir, looks good
And thank you sir hard work will always pay off
the best looking floor I've honestly ever seen.
Looks like a lot of work. Hats off to you
I did flooring for 30 years my friend I have to say you are amazing and an animal that is some hard ass work true craftsman I appreciate you and what hard work you do
interesting finish ... that's a lot of serious work! I'm impressed
I love it, you work will pay off if your the person flipping the house...
i like the texture. looks rustic
Miterd corners and patterns in the floor would take up the "time factor" and create something much more beautiful for the "I have to much money" look.
Wow....absolutely BEAUTIFUL
That's what you call hard labor
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The Watcher
Do crazy people know they are crazy?
Lol, okie dokie, is that why you removed your comment of insanity? :)
Yeah, kooks are good at blocking out reality. So are you both in some cult that shares the same profile pic?
Lol, says the guy pretending to be 2 people.
I hope you're charging well! Such hard work!
I scraped 200 ft. of Hickory for the first time in over ten years today - I wish I had that scraper.. BTW, nice job, I think I'll call you next time :)
When arthritis and tendonitis sets in you will love the sander once again. Your career doing this will be very short but i wish you luck and good health while you still have it
Wow a lot of work. Well done.
Incredible Finish. Came out great!
You scape floors for sure.
I tried to sand a floor but the finish gummed up the paper.
Ended up doing similar with my electric hand planer.
Charge large brother as that looks hard on the knees and lower back.
Nice finished product.
Gas Axe use heavier grit
That's a work of art,& I'm in the flooring industry. I hope you charge enough, that's going to be hell on the body when you get my age. But Beautiful.
A piece of feasces can be a work of art in some people's mind.
Man , nothing but respect to that man. 👏 I know that is some tough work right there, looks awesome 👌 👏 👍
My God!! So hard!! Congrats!! Beautiful and a good look
It doesn’t matter what he charges, he’s earned it.
Looks like a lot of hard labour but it’s beautiful. I would have liked to see how they finished it.
All I can say is really big shoulders! Beautiful work too!
Looks nice i achieved Similar look by sanding with the wrong grits and botching it up but your finish looks great
This makes me tired just watching this man, God bless you
Right!
From plain to elegant. Striking result.
Hey Joshua its Eric. Love your channel
Bet he doesn't have a gym membership!! Bloody hard work!!
Quality work. I have typically seen the entire surface of the floor scraped without leaving the strips between passes. I understand that may help you get a slightly flatter floor.
It is too bad that so many posters don't understand the look or the goal.
Your handling your business my brother 💪🏽🙏🏽
Just out off words. Awesome job.
What a labor of love! Gorgeous.
Your crazy man. I've been sanding floors for 20 years now and have never seen someone actually destress and scrape a floor like that before. Very impressive and freaking hard a## work. I would have charged $20 a sq ft to do something that insane...
Screen Man You are right..I've also been sanding floors for over 20 years and thats madness lol
Well you're greedy & lazy
rollerblading geek ....knowing the worth of quality skilled labor doesn't make him greedy or lazy. Not knowing the worth of quality skilled labor makes you entitled and cheap. I am glad I saw the demonstration so i can appreciate the extremely hard work that went into that floor. $20/sq.ft. is fair for the brutal work and those results, if that's what you're going for. I couldn't afford it, and I'm not willing to do this kind of back breaking work on my own. Bitching about what someone thinks is a fair price is distasteful.
and bitching about someone else's opinion is distasteful. $20 per square foot is $220 per square metre. At the speed he's doing it in the video, that's approx. $220 per minute which is $13,200 per hour. No one's forcing you to do that job but that's more than a highly educated heart surgeon earns & perhaps thinking you're worth that much makes you the entitled one.
rollerblading geek Damn right, I don't give a damn what a heart surgeon makes, a heart surgeon's job is tedious and technical..NOT hard labor, so in my opinion a skilled hardwood floor guy should get MORE than a heart surgeon, and that's MY opinion
Looks great! What art work should look like.
BEAUTIFUL reminds me of old farmhouse floors
That's some impressive scraping. I think stair risers are probably more punishing still. I need one of those scrapers.
what a beast, well done
The floor looks like its been there for over 100yrs..awesome look..
That’s a God gift ! Ability to work hard
wow amazing. I'll be doing this as we have two finishes on oak in our place. While its a lot of work is cuts down on dust and clean up. And I prefer a natural look, wood is never perfect and having more texture is what I love about wood. Well done.
Looks great....but how many miles did he take off his arms and shoulders.....
Stunning work.
Your hard work results in beautiful floors. Your body will torture you in a very few short years to come. I admire you and hate to think of what it’s costing you in the long run.
Yeah, this is a job I wouldn't want to do. You must have serious stamina and strength in abundance to achieve that. Fair play guy.