MAKING DUST WHILE THE SUN SHINES . . . ?

Oh brother, is this a testimony to my phrase “If you are going to make a mess, make a good one!” Well, we surely succeeded. We have taken this opportunity to remove and refinish the gouges in the dining room floor created by ill-fitting chair and table leg booties with a little help from stilettos. The first step was to clear the room before sanding. Furniture ended up in the side yard and everywhere EXCEPT the dining room. As an aside, seeing my home like this makes me nearly apoplectic I tell you.

The final chores included refinishing of the thresholds between the kitchen and backdoor and then the refinishing and FILLING the threshold of the dining room patio doors.

Significant weather damage on the outside threshold required filling with wood putty and apoxy.

We failed to anticipate the magnitude of dust so we did not tape off the room resulting in a massive ceiling-to-floor dusting project including every individual piece of whatever objects & furniture in all of the main floor – whew!

A final coat of the same professional sealer that Paul used when we redid all the floors and we were back in business. We actually applied three costs with heavy product concentration in the areas most distressed by sanding out the gouges. Strangely enough, this product has a nearly elastic feel when dried and thoroughly cured which requires 3 days. Every time we do this I proclaim that ‘. . . this is my last time . . .’ but fully realizing that this old gal needs her gams looking just right!