Comparing durability of 12 hardwood floor finishes for refinishing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- I compare 12 popular hardwood floor polyurethane finishes, 4 oil-based and 8 water-based. With a controlled scratch and abrasion tests, I test how durable and how well they wear and see which is better between water based aka waterborne and oil based floor finishes for refinishing. Also, is commercial finish worth the extra cost? The twelve hardwood flooring finishes aka Varnishes I used are:
* Bona Traffic HD
* Bona Mega One
* Bona Mega
* Norton PolyWhey 2500
* Norton PolyWhey 3500
* Minwax Water-based Oil Modified
* Minwax Oil Polyurethane
* Masterline Water-based
* Masterline Oil Poly made by Duraseal
* Bona Woodline Oil Poly
* Varathane Diamond Wood Floor Finish
* Varathane Professional Oil - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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2023 and still the underrated best video for deciding on flooring finish.
My God... this is the single most useful piece of information on the internet for choosing a flooring finish; you need more views!!! I have spent hours already trying to compare reviews and endorsements to make a choice. Going with the PolyWhey 3500 for VOCs and performance in your test. The effort you put into this video is greatly appreciated!
Eric Jackson thanks, I’m glad this vid was helpful for your finish choice, I know I’m using Polywhey more often now.
No this is stupid. Doesn't Matter if they dry in ten minutes, they still need a month of curing time or minimum of 2 weeks for waterbase.
@@retlawx10 he waited a month before testing them so they had plenty of time to cure.
When you say a month of curing time, does that mean you can’t/shouldn’t use the room for a month?
@@hannahbassett7541 just have to be really careful or the surface will scratch really easy. With waterbase finishes, you could be walking on your floors after a few hours. Oil base takes 6 hours or longer and all depends on the temperature in side the house.
I have coated thousands of floors and all types wood species
I’m a custom hardwood flooring manufacturer and this is the most extensive test I have seen I mean look at the scratching machine they painted a logo on it. And good choice of product comparison from the readily available to more professional poly and the breakdown of cost per sq ft per coat you are a very detailed person. My suggestion to anyone if you have this guy do your floors he’s not skipping steps . Great job !
You put a LOT, LOT, LOT into this. Not only everything that went into the testing but in editing the video so it wasn't three hours long. Thanks for all your work.
He lives in Saskatchewan, and sands floors for a living, .. and he's married; this is the most fun he's had in 15 years! lol, totally kidding, Madame Wifey ;) .. I actually did hear you out there holding the camera, haha. Play together, Stay together, right peace
The world needs more of this quality of content. As a person who works with lots of clinical study designs, I can say this is probably the best designed product comparison test i've ever seen on youtube. You have a head for this kind of video and I'd like to see you make more product comparison videos please!
I’ve been stressing over which finish to use. This is the best, most helpful video I’ve watched. Thank you for your time and efforts!
Been in the industry for 10 years now and traffic HD and pallmann gold are the only two that I ever use. I can safely say they will last and also won’t run my customers out of their homes for too long due to quick dry/cure times and low VOCs. Your video is awesome and I will recommended to my customers if they are ever curious to know!
Bro I am a new homeowner and diyer.... Thanks so much for the info I follow you for a year now. Keep up the good work. Thanks
I hardly write comments but for the amount of effort you put in to educate people, I just wanted to say Thank you. That seemed like a lot of work but you explained so well and thanks for just stating the facts and not be biased.
Finally a real review made by a real genuine craftsman!
Not one of those useless product review made by people that should not be allowed to post!
Congratulations to you sir, extremely well done!
Other wanna be reviewers, take note.
This has nothing to do with what I was searching for yet I still watched the whole thing - awesome job👍👍
"... not sure if that matters but just in case it did, I built this..." (pans to impressively engineered pulley) This video is amazing and insightful. Thank you!
Thank YOU... GREAT JOB
Holy hell this is the single best thing I've ever seen. This is gold. Pure gold. It's like Project Farm but for floor finishes.
You should be a scientist. Actually you are!!! Amazing controls for unbiased testing!!!
I am a scientist, and I was thinking the same thing. Very impressive the way he set this up to be consistent. By far the best video I’ve seen on the topic
I think this video proves he is a scientist!
You did the tests every home renovator wants to know the answers to !! Thanks heaps!
Wow ! That was amazing . I'm impressed by how you approached and executed the entire question. Bravo !!
Water base poly in my opinion the scratches show 450% more than oil base commercial polys
Crazy amount of work for this test! Great stuff!!!
I couldn't have asked for a better review. Thank you for being so thorough. I think you just took hours out of my search, and now I have some knowledge when I speak with a service to redo my floors.
Thank you so much! This is the best made video I have seen in a long, long time. I really appreciate your effort and your kindness to us all.
Excellent testing! You went above and beyond and I appreciate that. Just awesome.
Wow! That was the most detailed and consistent comparison I've ever seen on any product! That was a lot of work for you and we appreciate it!
All details was covered, amazing work, amazing video, thanks for all your effort.
Outstanding in every way. This was EXACTLY what I was looking for as I review hardwood floor finishes before coating a new 1100 square foot bamboo floor. Great range of products, impressive rigor in the testing methods and terrific editing and overlay graphics. Superb. Also huge style points for the whimsical AutoScratch. THANK YOU for taking the time to put this together.
Great comparison test. What a lot of work! Thank you for taking the time to do it.
Only a couple minutes in and I’m so impressed with this video. I’m so glad this is here, excellent work and so helpful!!
Thank you, Seth! We appreciate your dedication and all the effort to put in to make this the most objective test! We are thoroughly impressed by all the considerations you made to keep it a controlled test. Look forward to your future videos!
THANK YOU! This was scientific, through and informative. I appreciate all the work you did to give us this information
Thank you Seth! I love the professional thorough review of these products. You and your wife went over and above to help answer the question. Thank you for sharing your expertise and extensive study findings in a clear and concise way for us to see and easily understand the consistent method used and the different outcomes reached.
Amazing eye for detail,in my experiences with many of the finishes you used . Bona products seem to be the most resistant from big dogs and lots of traffic. You truly made a masterpiece video mad props to you. sir.
Thank you sir, you should have a million views, you put such great time and effort into this and your review is in-depth and practical. Consumer reports eat your heart out!
Wow, the effort put into this is incredible! Amazing job!
His ingenuity and thoughtfulness are just really fun to watch. By far the best product test video I’ve seen on TH-cam. Thank you for your hard work. I’ll be using Polywhey 2500 on my next home project.
Outstanding review and unbiased testing. I am glad I found this before starting my refinishing project.
Perfectly organized presentation! You gave times, materials used, brands, created tools for consistent scratching.
You definitely know how to make a presentation that's great and as non-biased as possible. Thank you! I am in the market for a finish. This will help tremendously!
Amazing job. Maximum effort on this video. Thank you!
DUDE. Thank you for doing this. This is possibly the most well-thought-out, complete testing video I've ever witnessed. Really helped mak my decision on finished super easy and justifable. Thank you sir!
I watched this video a few months ago when I was just starting to learn about floor finishing. Most of it went over my head. Just watched it again, and holy cow. This really is an incredible resource, there's a lot of hand-wavy info out there on floor finishing, super refreshing to see someone take such a scientific, "prove it" approach. Thanks for all the work you out into this, and hope you keep it up!
Really appreciate the amount of work you put into this. Wow. Fantastic resource.
Awesome! Thank you so much for your carefully controlled, systematic and practical tests.
Most helpful video I've ever seen on the internet. Thank YOU for doing this work!
Epic test!!! Thanks for taking the time and effort to make this comparison.
Great, informative video. I was worried at first because I just ordered the Bona Traffic HD for my home. So glad that it was the winner.
Dear Seth, I am very grateful to you for creating this video. It has been the MOST INFORMATIVE video on this topic. You are very intelligent, knowledgeable, and helpful man. Thank you!
Jesus this video is awesome. The most information I have watched on hardwood floors! Thank you for putting such a tremendous amount of time and effort into the video! I appreciate it.
What a scientific approach! Thank you Seth and wife for sharing this useful video.
God damn you're hot. Please tell me you don't date outside your race
Thanks for taking the time to make this elaborate yet very informational video. You’re awesome!
Great video!!! you knocked it out of the park. we are so lucky to have professionals doing this for us. THANK YOU
I could not thank you enough for this . You are a star. A massive thank you.
That was an excellent production! Thank you very very much for your time and effort making this!
This is amazing. I feel lucky for finding it.
Thank you very much for taking the time to do these tests. I think I am speaking for most people when I say, I appreciate the time and effort!!
Thank you so much for all the time and effort in putting everything together for this video. Because of your effort now many people including me, understands a lot more about flooring finishes than before so Thank you. I usually use Bona Traffic since I've always gotten great results by doing so, thou I now learned more about the other products that I never tried as well.
Thanks for a great job! Canadian EH! This is the clearest well defined evaluation of comparable products.
What a wonderful piece of demonstrative research. Absolutely so impressive. Consumer Reports researchers need to watch this. Thank you for your work!
Best I’ve found for all round comprehensive and I’ve been searching everywhere. This settles it. VERY much appreciate your efforts here.
I just want to thank you for the work you put into this video. The most useful comparison video on TH-cam.
You REALLY like your profession. Excellent, well thought out testing and analysis of the finishes and wood.
Kudos to you.
This video is incredible. So much time and effort put into helping people make a well informed decision where there is an overwhelming amount of information and options. This is an important decision. I am grateful for this video. Thank you!
Best TV show I've seen in ages. Love the science, and dedication. Useful information. thanks Seth.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Really helped me a lot.
Nicely done. Complete and objective tests. And no stupid sounds on the back ground as some people do. Thanks
All I can say is wow, wow, wow. I've seen many videos on TH-cam and this is definitely one of the most detailed well put together testing (side by side) reviews I have ever seen. Great job!!🤯
Great experiment. Love the fact that you used objective techniques. Thanks.
I was hesitant picking up my finish brand. YOU saved me tons of work! Man thank you for your thorough and systematic testing. This curriculum should be taught to engineering students...
Echoing the choir, fantastic video. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and definitely not ignorant to the amount of work that was involved here. Hats off.
I laughed audibly when you showed the winch. Great job! This was a very thorough test!
This is by far, hands down the most useful and informative video out there on floor finishes. Thank-you for not trying to sell me something.
Most thorough review of anything I've ever seen. Just based on this I'd hire him for any job.
Just wanted to say thank you and amen to all the praise and gratitude- this is truly fantastic.
Thank you very much for putting in so much work on this one! You've taken great pains to be as consistent as possible which makes it very useful.
Wow this is so IMPRESSIVE!!!! You have saved so many people so much anxiety over finishing their floor!! GOD BLESS YOU for you labor of love ...
Wow. The effort you put into this is awesome. Great job.
This is fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to put this together
That's such a lot of work you put into that experiment. Thank you so much. Top Man!
WOW!!! GREAT job!!! This was extremely helpful, and I loved your scientific, unbiased process! Thank you!
Wow! this is what I call going above and beyond! Thanks so much for your valuable work.
Holy crap, that was thorough. Thank you for all the time you put into this! This is one of the best videos on TH-cam.
I love how you standardized the test conditions to control all variables. That is science.
making my first youtube comment to say this was the most thought out, compact and helpful video I've ever seen!
Excellent - and you seem to have assembled the world's first completely polite and rational feedback. A gem on both counts - Bravo team Miller!
Totally impressed with how you standardized the tests! These results should be definitive.
Outstanding video. Your test was well-designed and very informative. You nailed it! Thank you.
I never leave reviews for videos, but this deserves a special thank you note!
Great video. Thank you for taking the time to put it together.
The amount of time you put in, deserves a like and a follow! Amazing job
You have put in so much of work into this video, really appreciate it!!
You can,t do it any better.Thank you,30years in the business,greets from Finland.
A heartfelt THANK YOU for this detailed study. Was on the fence about Bona Traffic especially since the area I need to cover, at about 450sf, will put me just over the line needing 2 gal per coat. You've done me a great service in helping me quantify why the extra cost is worth it.
Kudos to you for creating a video that really treats each area the same, using the same tests!
Thank you SO much for this! I know absolutely nothing about refinishing floors, but am seeking estimates to have our floor refinished. Of course everyone coming in says something different. Never in my wildest imagination did I think I'd sit and watch a nearly 25 minute long presentation on this subject, but I'm so glad I did. Again, thank you for your diligent work and for sharing it and your "scientific" opinion (unbiased). It is easy to find ads/commercial videos, but this, this was perfect!
Nice job on putting together this informational video. One of those rare GOOD, well-made, well-delivered informational videos. Kudos.
Great job!! This is helpful for my dance studio. You put a ton of time in to this comparison, and I definitely appreciate it!
Wow! Thanks for all your hard work to create a video like this!
I am thankful to have happened across you're video, and grateful for all the mindfulness built into it! Great work, this was inspiring.
Thank you for all the effort in making this video. It’s was the most informative video I’ve seen on TH-cam.
The work that went into this video is unreal! Bona traffic it is! Thank you!
What a great video on hardwood floor finishes. Best I found. We have a 110 year old heritage home in which we have replace the hardwood floors, and I intend to use this information to pick our finish. Thank you.
Thank you ! I am learning to finish floors, this was the best video - the detail of the trails was fun to watch too...
Great comparison video! Very helpful, and definately worth the watch. The most scientific experiment on wood finishes that i have seen. Thanks for putting the time and effort into it!
The Ultimate Test! Great execution & explanations. Thank you!