Silicon Carbide Mesh Sanding Screens Built for Clean, Consistent Floor Buffing
Virginia Abrasives large diameter mesh sanding screens are the standard tool for screening hardwood and sport floors between coats of finish. The screen mounts to a mesh screen driving pad on a rotary floor buffer, where the open weave scuffs the previous coat evenly across a wide diameter — reducing the number of passes needed on gym floors, basketball courts, and other large surfaces compared to smaller discs.
Contractors and school facility crews use these screens instead of paper discs because the open-mesh backing resists clogging. Paper-backed discs have a solid backing with abrasive bonded to one face; as dust builds up between passes it packs into the grain and the disc stops cutting. A mesh screen’s open weave lets dust pass through the material instead of trapping it, so the screen holds its cut rate over a longer stretch of floor before it needs to be swapped or flipped.
Screens are silicon carbide on both sides, effectively doubling usable life versus a one-sided paper disc of the same size. That matters on large jobs — a school gym recoat or a full court refinish — where crews are burning through abrasive by the box.
What this is not for: mesh screens are an intermediate/finish-work abrasive, not a leveling tool. Initial flattening of a floor is a drum-sander-and-paper job; over-screening a floor (using screens where a leveling sand is needed) can dish out the softer spring-wood grain and close the wood’s pores, which then interferes with finish adhesion.
Key Features
- Silicon carbide grain, double-sided: Usable on both faces, so one screen covers roughly twice the floor area of a single-sided paper disc before it’s spent.
- Open-mesh construction resists clogging: The woven backing lets sanding dust pass through instead of packing into the grain, so the screen keeps cutting instead of glazing over mid-job.
- Full grit range, 60–320 : Coarse grits (60–100) handle scuffing and light leveling touch-up; fine grits (150–320) are built for final screening ahead of a finish coat.
- Large diameter coverage, 15″–20″ in 1″ increments: Matched to standard mesh screen driving pads on rotary floor buffers, covering more floor per pass on gym floors and courts.
- Sold in boxes of 10: Sized for job-lot ordering rather than single-sheet retail purchase.
Technical Specifications
- Abrasive mineral: Silicon carbide
- Backing: Open-weave mesh, embedded grain on both faces
- Diameter options: 15″, 16″, 17″, 18″, 19″, 20″
- Grit options: 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 180, 220, 320
Packaging / What’s Included
- Sold in a box of 10 mesh screens, single size and grit per box.
- No driving pad, hardware, or adhesive included — screens mount to a separately sold mesh screen driving pad.
