Hardwood Floors- Do it youself or hire?

[Ivy Flowers]

My house is built in 1925 with thick beautiful hardwood floors all through out, I was looking to hire a professional but it is so expensive when I can rent the machine for about 50$ a day. I 've seen houses with the big dips in the floor and you can tell they didn't operate the sander correctly. The videos on youtube look easy of course but is it harder than it looks?

[James Maradits]

You're most likely going to want to hire this out.

You actually need at least 3 different machines to get it done right (drum sander, edger, finish sander.)  It's very easy to mess up and make it look really bad (waves, etc) unless you're really careful.  I see this all the time and it makes me cringe.  Also the rental equipment is unbelievably messy.  You'll be trying to clean dust off of the walls, out of every crack in the house for days.

I have a really good reference in the area that I use for my floors, I'll send you the info.