thisplace.com.au - Sandpaper Grit

If you are going to to a bit of restoring or renovating at home you will at some stage be using some type of sandpaper with which to bring back to life an old piece of furniture or even just to sand back a surface ready for painting or staining.

The big question is that you have to know what type of grit you will need your sandpaper to have for a particular job. Read on, as we will tell you which job each grit can do.

Cutting back: 40-60 grit - Very Coarse/Coarse

This type of grit if best for rapid removal and smoothing out deep imperfections and surface rust removal.

Blending and Shaping: 80-120 grit - Medium

For smoothing out shallow depressions, scratches, course sanding marks and rounding sharp corners.

Blending and Shaping: 150-180 grit - Fine

For removing light scratches and preparing surfaces for painting. Use this after medium sanding to remove sanding marks.

Finishing: 220-280 grit - Very fine

For final preparatory sanding of surfaces, primers and sealers before painting.

Finishing: 320-1200 grit - Extra/Ultra fine

For sanding between finish coats of paint or varnish to achieve extremely fine results.