Hardwood Floor Recoating
The Bona Recoat Treatment is an excellent alternative to a full refinish. It allows you to safely and effectively clean up and abrade the existing polyurethane surface and apply a fresh coat of finish.
Hardwood Floor Recoating
The Bona Recoat Treatment is an excellent alternative to a full refinish. It allows you to safely and effectively clean up and abrade the existing polyurethane surface and apply a fresh coat of finish.
Why Recoating Hardwood Floors Is Essential for Residential and Commercial Projects
Recoat for a longer floor lifetime. Your customers work hard to ensure their wood floors look beautiful, but over time, the finish is slowly worn down by the friction of daily foot traffic. If the necessary steps to properly maintain them are not met, eventually, bare wood will be exposed requiring a complete refinish. Every few years floors can be recoated to maintain their protective layer with the Bona Recoat System. This innovative recoat process effectively removes contaminants from the floor, cleans it thoroughly, and enhances the wood floor with a durable coat of Bona Traffic HD®. In less than a day your customers can have a new coat of finish that restores the beauty and prolongs the life of their wood floor.
Professionals rely on recoating hardwood floors as a proven solution to extend floor longevity, maintain commercial-grade appearance, and avoid the downtime of a full sand-and-refinish process.
Prep and Recoat – Polyurethane Finished Floors
Recoating hardwood floors with a polyurethane finish is the key to maintaining their beauty and durability while also saving time compared to a full refinish. By adding a new layer of protection, you can extend the life of your floor—often with the process ready for light use overnight!
Why Recoat Instead of Refinish?
Recoating hardwood floors is far less invasive and time-consuming than sanding down to bare wood. This method preserves existing finish, renews appearance, and strengthens protection, all without displacing furniture for days.
As always, read and follow all detailed instructions on labels and Technical Data Sheets prior to beginning treatments.
Step 1 - Preparation
Remove furniture from the work area and clean loose dust and debris from the floor using a Bona Dusting Pad or a vacuum.
Step 2 - Deep Cleaning With Bona Prep
Use Bona Prep as a spray buff solution with a Bona FlexiSand DCS Buffer (or another standard speed 175 rpm buffer) and a Bona Conditioning Pad. Spray Bona Prep over a large section of the floor (approximately 3’x12’) at the rate of 2,000 square feet per gallon. Before spray buffing the next section, remove all residues immediately, using a Bona Microfiber Mop dampened with Bona Prep. NOTE: Overlap sections to ensure that no areas are missed.
Step 3 - Fine Sanding
When dry, abrade the entire floor using the Bona MultiDisc with Bona Diamond 240-grit discs for best results. Alternatively, abrasion can be done using either a Bona Conditioning Pad driving two or three 240-grit Bona Diamond Discs or driving a second Bona Conditioning Pad. All these options will ensure abrasion of the edges next to any over wood and in the grain pattern, and optimize adhesion of the finish top. Wet-tack the floor again to remove dust using a Bona Microfiber Cleaning Pad, a wrung-out cotton towel or cloth dampened with Bona Prep®.
Step 4 - Finish Application
Allow the floor to dry completely then apply a Bona waterborne or oil-modified finishing system within 2 hours. NOTE: If recoating a factory prefinished floor, use only Bona Traffic HD®, Bona Traffic HD Anti-Slip, or Bona Traffic HD RAW.
Bona Recoat System – Polyurethane Finished Floors
The Bona Recoat System safely removes all contaminants from the floor, preparing it for optimal adhesion of a new coat of Bona Traffic HD®.
As always, read and follow all detailed instructions on the product labels and Technical Data Sheets prior to beginning.
Step 1 - Preparation
Remove furniture from the work area and clean loose dust and debris from the floor using a Bona Dusting Pad or a vacuum.
Step 2 - Apply Bona Remove
Shake Bona Remove® for 15-20 seconds of until all settled product is thoroughly mixed, then pour a 4” wide line of Bona Remove along the starting wall. 2. Saturate the Bona Roller with product from the pour line. Set roller down at backside of puddle and pull the roller towards you, approximately 4-5 feet. Then push back in the same path beyond your original start point. BE SURE YOU ARE USING THE RECOMMENDED COVERAGE OF 400-500 SQ. FT. PER GALLON. DO NOT SPREAD TOO THIN. Do not cover more floor than you will be able to abrade and rinse in 20-30 minutes. (Approximately 200 sq. ft).
Step 3 - Fine Sanding
Using the Bona FlexiSand DCS® Buffer (or another 175rpm rotary buffer) equipped with the Bona Recoat Abrasive drive plate (make sure to replace every 5000 to 7000 square feet of use), abrade the section of floor coated with the Bona Remover®. Abrade with the grain up and back over the same path. Start the next pass by overlapping the previous pass by 50%.
Step 4 - Bona Rinse
Mount the red brushes on the Bona PowerScrubber®, instead of the white brushes that come standard. Fill the PowerScrubber tank with Bona Rinse® and water (mix Bona Rinse at a 4:1 ratio, 4 parts water to one-part Bona Rinse), and remove and clean all Bona Remover® from the floor. When running the Bona PowerScrubber move the machine up and back in the same path and overlap subsequent passes by 20%.
Step 5 - Repeat
Step 6 - Finish Application
Once the floor is dry apply a coat of Bona Traffic HD®, following label instructions. As always, follow all detailed instructions on labels and Technical Data Sheets prior to beginning treatments.