Chatter Marks On Hardwood Floors

While it isn t easy to prevent these marks taking the following precautions before sanding the floor can go a long way towards preventing these problematic chatter marks.

Chatter marks on hardwood floors.

Although these marks are hard to detect. The wave is more likely an equipment issue. You can send a picture. Either way the result is not pretty and can.

These marks are often referred to as chatter marks. Pete s hardwood floors 292 107 views 20 40 roughing with hand scraper duration. Deflection in the subfloor can cause chatter but that wasn t the case here. Chatter can be caused by a loose sub floor just as an example.

Jan sverre haugjord 1 392 views 1 58 dull blade duration. Chatter marks is a common term used to describe a rippling pattern of half circle marks that appear on hardwood floors as a result of improper sanding. First the floor would have to be sanded on a bit of an angle to remove the chatter or wave. In this case we removed the chatter by cutting the floor at a fairly steep angle with the big machine we didn t even need a multi disc sander.

Chatter for the most part is not severe and for the most part is a vibration issue. Chatter are like little ripple lines closely spaced. Waves are more like 10 inches apart. First of all if the floor is already stained it will require different sanding procedures than a floor that is unfinished.

Wave is a repeat of the first imperfection that runs repeatedly over the floor and is typically more than 1 1 2 inches apart. Poor seams on the abrasive belt drive belts and fan belts worn pulleys and bad bearings in the fan housing also can cause chatter and imperfections in the floor. Rippling in a wood floor is called chatter if the ripples are less than 1 1 2 inches apart and waves if the ripples are more than 1 1 2 inches apart. Ethan shows how and why chatter marks can happen on a belt sander.

Jan sverre haugjord 477 views 1 06. Other potential causes are belts with a flat spot drums with a flat spot bad bearings a worn upper roller and more. He also talks about the difference between a butt joint and a lap joint.