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MayBbaby21
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Refinishing floors while pregnant
Anyone go through it? We were in the middle of some renovations when I got pregnant. We recently had new hardwood installed and now it's time for stain and refinishing of existing floors. We are moving out for a week. I hear it really stinks for a while. Do you think I should stay out even longer?
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Posted 5/18/13 2:03 PM  |
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Sparrow
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Re: Refinishing floors while pregnant
I personally would stay away for as long as possible. When you see your doctor I'd also run it by them. Those fumes can't be good.
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| Posted 5/18/13 2:23 PM |
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LadyBug1209
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Re: Refinishing floors while pregnant
I think a week is sufficient... Just make sure windows stay open as much as possible to air it out. The first few days are the worst.
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| Posted 5/18/13 2:44 PM |
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Katareen
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Refinishing floors while pregnant
A week should be plenty!
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| Posted 5/18/13 4:08 PM |
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LDrinkh20
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Re: Refinishing floors while pregnant
We were out of our house for 2 weeks because it took longer than we thought it would. We waited for the smell to really be gone!
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| Posted 5/18/13 5:30 PM |
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CarlieJLD7
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Re: Refinishing floors while pregnant
We just had it done... The man said if we wanted water base I could come back next day... But if we wanted oil to stay out at least 4-5 days.
We did oil, I stayed at my brothers. The smell was pretty strong...
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| Posted 5/18/13 6:35 PM |
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GlowSuarez
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Re: Refinishing floors while pregnant
A week is fine definitely stay away from that amell its reaally strong
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| Posted 5/18/13 8:18 PM |
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pnbplus1
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Re: Refinishing floors while pregnant
Posted by LDrinkh20
We were out of our house for 2 weeks because it took longer than we thought it would. We waited for the smell to really be gone!
We were out close to 2 weeks. I was pregnant. The smell was incredibly strong and I did not want to take any chances.
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| Posted 5/19/13 9:24 AM |
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Strawberry2468
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Re: Refinishing floors while pregnant
We moved in about 3 days after we had ours done. We left all windows open. It stunk for like forever (mostly because I had super snoper prego nose). I think a week is fine as long as you keep windows open. We had ours done in May too so it was nice out.
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| Posted 5/19/13 8:59 PM |
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jessnbrian
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Refinishing floors while pregnant
I redid my floors last year and we lived at my mom's for two weeks and when we got back it still smelled for another 2 weeks. I would stay out of the house as long as possible. Also, don't be surprised if your clothes smell like the stain for a while after when washing/drying. For some reason dryers seem to take the stain/poly smell and hold on to it - our clothes smelled for about 2 months after, I found out it's pretty common.... Don't know if it's only with gas dryers though**
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| Posted 5/19/13 11:12 PM |
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