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How Do You Remove Water Stains From Hardwood Floors?

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How Do You Remove Water Stains From Hardwood Floors?

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Hardwood floors are beautiful and increasingly popular with homeowners for their practicality-they are easy to clean and won’t hold odors. However, hardwood floors do have a down side-they will stain, particularly if water is left on the surface for a time. Once hardwood is water stained, you can’t just clean it up with a floor cleaner; you need to get rid of the stain and refinish the floor. While that all sounds like a lot of work, if your water stain isn’t too big, removing a water stain from hardwood flooring is really a job most DIY’ers can take on. Here’s how. Start by thoroughly cleaning the floor area all around the stain with denatured alcohol. Using 150-grit sandpaper and your orbital sander, sand away the top layer of the stained wood. (The water will actually have gone right into the wood so you need to get rid of all the gray color.) Move the sander gently around on the floor and let the sandpaper do the work. You don’t want to press too hard or you could create sanding ma

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