Softwood flooring – which contains types including cedar, cypress, fir, hemlock, pine and spruce – provides a cheaper and much more eco-friendly alternative to hard-wood floors. Sometimes, this kind of flooring is “site-completed,” which indicates it comes as unfinished strips of lumber before installation. You need to sand these kinds of floors before you use a finish including tung oil, linseed oil or polyurethane.

Put on a dust mask along with function goggles before sanding your soft-wood floors.

Equip your sander with 36- or 40-grit sandpaper. Begin sanding in the middle of the ground. Sand – to 30-degree angle from end of the area to another. Don’t exert pressure on the sander; merely guide it over the ground. Overlap your passes by two or an inch. Change your sandpaper as it becomes full of dirt or easy. Move gradually and keep the sander in-motion.

Vacuum the whole area of the flooring that is soft-wood to to get dirt that is excessive.

Equip your sander with 50- or 60-grit sandpaper. This time, begin in the center but make lines after the grain of the wood, in one course. As you did, continue to overlap your passes.

Hand sand uneven places, difficult to reach places or places that need specific consideration – such as corners, wall lines, door jambs and toe kicks — with 80-grit sandpaper.

Vacuum. Wipe the ground using a microfiber cloth or tack cloth to remove all traces of dirt down.