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Cheaper machine distressed hard wood flooring runs about $10 per square foot, where hand-scraped hard wood flooring is about $15 per square foot, on average. With such a jump in price, it's a wonder that more people don't buy 'regular' hard wood flooring and distress it themselves, thus saving even more than the additional $5 per foot for the hand-scraped variety.

Before we talk about how to go about distressing your hard wood floor yourself, we should discuss some further detail about machine and hand distressed hard wood flooring, should you opt for either of these routes.

If you decide to purchase machine or hand distressed hard wood flooring, you should seriously consider getting the pieces pre-finished as well. Basically, when people order hand-scraped or machine distressed wood, and then finish the floor on site, they are simply sanding away many of the very dents and scrapes that they paid for.

Additionally, pre-finished distressed hard wood flooring has the advantage of being able to expand and contract without cracking the finish, as happens normally on hard wood floors that are finished on site. The boards are not sealed together with pre-finished hard wood flooring, so the finish lasts longer, throughout drier and more humid periods of contraction and expansion.

If you'd rather distress your own hard wood floor, there's really no better way than to just start beating on it and gouging it with various tools. Don't worry, before you're done you'll be sanding the roughest areas of damage. Also, you will probably want to use a sander to create some smooth, yet uneven portions of the floor, so think of the nicks and gouges as exaggerations that will be minimized.

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