[Bill Douglas]

Steve, my old 1899 built cottage need the floors done. they were very cupped and had borer (wood worm). I used a hand held belt sander and took off only about a millimetre. This way the floor was clean with a "brand new surface" but I hadn't dug down to the borer holes, and the belt sander worked in the hollows of the cupping. Then I did gloss polyurathane over it and gave it a week to harden. It looked fantastic.