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Originally Posted by look 171

What are you really looking for out of this floor, Steve?

Its worn a bit so personally, I would just re-sand it and get it flat and go from there. Its a big job and will disrupt your daily life that's for sure and not cheap. I wonder if that's the sub floor? I have torn out hoses that has that type of sub floor. Normally they are tongue and grooved and many people pull their carpet and sees this beautiful Fir floor and want to re-finish and keep that as finish floor.

We are OK/Happy with the overall character of the floor, but it would be nice to be able to improve some of the worst spots, maybe lighten dark spots where I'm guessing stuff has sat on the floor and stained it.

I've been under the house. When you look up from underneath you see the support joists and then on top of those you see what looks like 3.5" TnG going North-South. The floor in the house goes East-West. So I'm guessing that the floor is 2 layers, maybe.

I am living and working in the house 24x7. I can't even imagine trying to refinish the floors while I'm living in it. I'm sure that I could manage the sanding, but then putting down the urethane would be a pain. I guess I could do what Zeke has talked about and wax the floors instead of putting down urethane.

What the hell would we do with the gouges?