Floor sanders efficiently strip wooden floors, including parquet and mixed-width boards, making them ideal for contractors and DIYers. Drum sanders remove worn layers, revealing a smooth surface ready for finishing. They feature high-speed motors, comfortable handles, impact-resistant guards, and a built-in vacuum for dust control. Edging sanders refine areas near skirting boards and tight spaces, ensuring a seamless finish. Compact and lightweight, they offer easy manoeuvrability with powerful motors and dust collection. Both sanders are self-contained, easy to transport, and suitable for various hardwood floors, decking, and engineered surfaces.

Types of sanders

Palm, belt, random orbital & edging sanders
A quality hand sander can transform furniture, wooden floors, doors, window frames, skirting, and other surfaces. Whether you are upcycling an old table or renovating a room, we have a range of hand sanders that will allow trade professionals and DIYers to revitalise or transform tired, worn, discoloured, and damaged surfaces in no time.

Belt Sanders
Belt sanders shape and finish materials, such as wood and more, offering a linear sanding action that produces an aesthetic finish. They have electric motors that drive 2 drums with a sandpaper belt mounted on them, allowing for a continuous loop. Belt sanders are versatile and can level surfaces, smooth rough patches, trim to scribed lines, round and shape wood, and remove paints, lacquers, varnish, and other finishes, quickly and easily.

Palm Sanders / Finishing Sanders
Palm sanders, also known as finishing sanders, are ideal for small to medium sanding jobs and finishing stages of work before adding a coat of varnish, paint, wax, or stain. You can also use them to strip surfaces and remove old and worn finishes so that they can be replaced. Palm sanders are compact power tools that move the sanding pad quickly and in small orbits, gently taking away the topcoat or rough sections of a surface. They fit into 1 hand, allowing you to move them manually, covering small areas in no time. Finishing sanders use standard sandpaper that you can install and replace when needed.

Random Orbital Sanders
Random orbital sanders are ideal for stripping wood, removing rough areas, and deburring materials. They feature round sanding pads that vibrate, rotate, and also oscillate off-centre in an ununiformed pattern, using a ball-bearing mechanism. When the pad encounters a hard or raised point of a surface, its motion is adjusted, allowing it to work away at the point gradually and from different angles, creating a random scratch pattern. Random orbital sanders are very efficient for smoothing materials but are too aggressive for a clean finish.

Floor Edging Sanders
Floor edging sanders strip floorboards close to skirting boards and walls, where larger units cannot reach. They leave a smaller gap, so your floorboards have a consistent finish. Edging sanders are also ideal for confined areas, wardrobes, cupboards, stair treads, and more.

Sander Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best sander for sanding a floor?
Your best option is a floor and edging sander, you can use an electric drum sander for the main part of your floor and an edging sander to get close to the skirting board.

How long does it take to sand a floor?
If you're using both the floor sander and edge sander on a 140 square-foot space, it will take roughly 5 hours to complete three sanding passes.

Can I sand my own floors?
Sanding your floors can be time consuming, but it is a relatively easy procedure. Doing it yourself can save you a lot of money compared to getting a professional in to do it for you.

How much is a floor sander?
You can hire a floor sander for as little as £45.16 per day!

Are floorboards worth sanding?
Absolutely, yes. Sanding floorboards yourself is a great way to save some money if you're confident enough to do so.