About floor sanders (having been through this once with my house in the UK):
The tool rental place may try to rent you 2 machines, a full-sized floor sander, which looks something like this:
(it may also have a big bag to collect sawdust)
These are huge, heavy, very noisy, and very, very difficult to use properly.
And a smaller, "edging" sander that looks more like this:
Since the area of floor is really quite small (by floor sander standards, I mean), I would strongly suggest that you only rent the smaller "edging" sander. They are much easier to use and control, and really all you need. I did my entire dining room floor in the UK with a very small one.
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Date: 2008-04-24 11:41 pm (UTC)The tool rental place may try to rent you 2 machines, a full-sized floor sander, which looks something like this:
(it may also have a big bag to collect sawdust)
These are huge, heavy, very noisy, and very, very difficult to use properly.
And a smaller, "edging" sander that looks more like this:
Since the area of floor is really quite small (by floor sander standards, I mean), I would strongly suggest that you only rent the smaller "edging" sander. They are much easier to use and control, and really all you need. I did my entire dining room floor in the UK with a very small one.