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- 1). Go over the floor board by board with your hammer and nailset, looking for any raised nail heads. Sink any that you find.
- 2). Load the oscillating floor buffer with the heaviest (most abrasive) pad. Stand the machine in one corner of the room. Start it rotating, and immediately begin moving it along the floorboards.
- 3). Run the buffer over the floor with the direction of the floorboards, grinding off the top of the existing gloss. Don't stop moving the buffer while it's on. Do the whole floor.
- 4). Clean up all the dust with your vacuum cleaner.
- 5). Put a medium-abrasion pad on the buffer. Buff the floor a second time, in the same manner as the first, talking off all remaining shine. Vacuum.
- 6). Screen the floor a third time, using the fine pad. The third screening should get the wood completely smooth and flat, with no shine left but with the underlying stain intact. Vacuum.
- 7). Go over the floor by hand with tack cloths to take up any residual dust. The floor is now ready for a topcoat of new gloss.
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