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How about dogs on newly finished hardwoods? Our floors have 3 coatings of water based finish. We were told we should keep our 2 large dogs off the floors for 3 weeks. I can live without the rugs for 30-60 days...but the dogs are a tougher matter!
It completely depends on what you use. In our former house, we used a water based poly. We could walk on it in a few hours. If I remember right, you can re-coat in like half an hour. However you need more coats. I think I went overboard and put on five coats with eight coats in the foot traffic areas. The nice thing is that I could put a coat on, walk ont he floor a few hours later and then the next weekend do antoher two or three coats. It was easy and the stuff actually smelled good. We put a bunch of fiberglass sanding pads at each doorway and when people walked through I told them to stand on a set of pads and shuffle accross thereby sanding the floor. It sounds wierd, but it worked great for between coat sandings. I still had to lightley sand corners, but the shuffling children did most of the work. The finish was beautiful and lasted until we sold the house (six or seven years after we did the floors).
In our kitchen of our current house we used some two part stuff made by Glista or Glitsa. It smelled so bad for two days that we could not even go into the house. I think it took a week before we could get on it, but that stuff is like diamond coating your floor. Really tuff stuff. I cannot remember if we used one coat or two, it was installed by professionals.
In our other rooms of our current house, they used an oil based material, it took two days before we could walk on it and about a week for furniture. It had little odor. They put two or three coats on it.
How about dogs on newly finished hardwoods? Our floors have 3 coatings of water based finish. We were told we should keep our 2 large dogs off the floors for 3 weeks. I can live without the rugs for 30-60 days...but the dogs are a tougher matter!
Read the label for the finish that was used..... it will give you max curing time recommended. After that you can do anything you want on the floor. 60 days ?! Sort of lonnnnnnnng in my opinion for any finish.
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