REACH THE WORLD WITH THe 2ANW2 toucH estore wooden floors polyurethane seal which is clear THE FEOORS throughout your house can be sanded down to bring out the richness of the grain. After that, you will want to seal the floor to protect the newly-exposed surface and make it easier to clean This job requires the following equipment: *an industrial drum floor sander for sanding the main part of the floor. ¢a hand sander for the edges of the floor and corners. * hammer and naiis. *pliers for pulling out old tacks. © adust mask. Many hardware shops and home centers wil] rent drum floor sanders Garge sanders cos? about $30 per day plus $5-10 for sand- paper you’! need to buy). Use the large sander first and attack the floor edges after the main area is done, Before you sand, however, you must prepare the floor. First, check that all the boards are securely attached to the joists below. Any nails thar are sticking up will tear the abrasive paper us- ed in the sanders, Also, use pliers to pull out any . leftover carpet tacks. Deciding which abrasive grade to use with your sander will de- pend on the initial. condition of your floorboards. Use your own judgement here and select either a coarse, medium or five sandiag paper. If ycu start with coarse paper, you will want to go over the floor once more at the ead for a smoother result. Genereliy speaking, a medium By Ron Gasbarro Contributing Writer put a gouge in the floorboards. Rather, tilt the sander toward you before switching it on, then lower it carefully onto the surface of the floor. Work parallel with the floor- beards to prevent splirntecing and to get the mest uniform finish you can. Overlap each row you make by about four inches and get as close as possible to the edges of the floor. Only if your floors are in poor condition will you need to break the parallel rule. So, at first, go over the boards at a 45 degree angle — never a right angle — to smooth out the bumps. When you switch to your finer paper, you can then continue working along a paraliel route. Go along the perimeter of the floor with your hand sander, again parallel to the boards, even along the walls where the boards are perpendicular to the wall edge. It will take more time to sand the - floorboards against those walls, but you will avoid serious scratching thet will be noticeable after you are through. Keep your dust mask on at all times through the sanding process — even if your sander has a dust bag. and gives the surface a gioss. Even though the seal alone will darken the floors somewhai, if you decide you want to change the color of the boards, you should stain them before you apply the seal. Make certain the floor is clean and dry before you apply the first coat of seal. Use a lint-free cloth, available at most paint stores, and again work in a parallel fashion, subbing the seal into the wood. Generally you will want to ap- ply three coats of seal in all and these should be done at 12-hour intervais — e.g., Saturday at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 am. — all within a 24-hour period to ensure that each coat bonds tightly with the previous one. By Sunday afternoon, you will want to collapse, but at least you will have a beautiful wood floor on which to fail. —Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate. ete I “AN Auty Voltage (80-250) As our world becomes a global society AIWA eliminates the problems of broadcasting im- compatibility. Our Digital Converter Videos are smart enough to convert from one system to another, eg PAL to NTSC and vice versa. This allows you to enjoy videos from nearly all over the world. !f an overseas friend sends you a video, no problem. if you want to send a video to family or friends, again no problem. 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