DFW Custom Wood Floors-Scrapeing Process

9. Get ready as your floor is about to be turned into its own one of a kind finish. Hand scraped floors are just that! Your installers will actually have small tools with semi concave blades that they scrape with. If you desire the deep wavy look as I did then they will scrape across the wood planks and then with the grain of the wood which runs length wise. This process is noisy and yet amazing and worthy of watching all at the same time. IT IS UP TO YOU to make sure your floors are scraped exactly the way you want as once they are stained……..there is NO MORE going back and “re-scraping”. Five crew members spent hours on their hands and knees scraping both across and with the grain of the wood. Mine were first scraped across and which gives the floor a light look of waves/rows. Then they scraped with the grain (length wise) which really starts to “transform” what was once a smooth surfaced wood floor in to a work of art! You will end up with an entire floor of what looks like hamster cage wood shavings at some points several inches deep. I was amazed to oversee this scraping process!!
		DON’T BE ALARMED…………..this is what you want if it is being done right. There are different levels of “waviness” you can obtain throughout the floor depending on if you want the look I did. Prior to staining……the “naked” wood floor will NOT show the true highlights that will be unleashed ONCE the stain and polyurethane coats are added on. Trust me…….it is amazing to see what happens from here! Prior to staining it is IMPERATIVE that your installer SAND YOUR PRE-STAINED FLOOR. Don’t forget to make sure this is done…..please read below!