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Originally posted by speedracing944
I am doing our kitchen floors right now. We are laying 8" wide solid oak planks, drilled, bolted and plugged just like you did. We are looking at different finishes right now. What did you use? We are looking at Waterlox. I will post pics after I get my other computer back in the kitchen.
Speedy
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Used Miniwax Satin. Recommended by my wife's uncle... he put it down over pine at his cottage 6 years ago. It is a shoes-on cottage, and it gets a lot of traffic. It has held up really, really well. (When I did the other floors in the house 2 years ago, I used Varethane brand. It was OK, but very slow drying. Very soft for about a month.)
Here's what I did:
-5 coats of polyurethane before I laid them. Sanded between the last two coats. This allowed me to have the "base" really dry and hard before I laid them.
-Screwed the boards down every 16". Used a plug cutter to make the plugs (instead of dowels... that would give you end grain)
-Glued & set the plugs as flush as I could, then sanded the plugs lightly. put finish 2" around each plug, let dry, lightly sanded those spots
-Put 2 additional coats... total of 7 coats
My planks were 9.5", 12-14' long. A couple of them have cupped a bit, maybe 1/4". I'm going to give them a full year before I start refastening any of them. They could dance around a fair bit... some cupped a bit, then flattened out again.
Here's another pic, after I plugged the screw holes & before thr last 2 coats:
