wrote in news:1145488174.971973.201110
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I'd like to rejuvenate and protect our floors with Waterlox tung oil. I
would prefer not to sand the floors. I've been told that just rubbing
the Waterlox tung oil with a fine steel wool pad should work miracles
on our floors.

I've taken some pics of our floors and have put them at:
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/floor/floor.html


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Of this I speak with some experience. I am in the (slow) process of
refinishing the oak floors in our house after 20 years of hard use. I am
using Waterlox - 1 coat of Original and 2 of Gloss. Some of the refinished
areas have been in use for about a year with 3 large dogs to abuse them and
seem to be holding up fine. I am sanding with a large orbiting pad floor
sander starting out with very coarse grit to remove the original finish and
stain and working though up to about 150grit screens. Dust collection with
the floor machine is good. I do edges with a ROS. Both processes are SLOW
compared to a drum floor machine, but you really need to practice with one
of those or you can leave some real valleys. Sanding only with even a 6"
ROS would be REAL tedious!

Stains, I've had them. White waterstains seem to blend OK, but I am
staining (Minwax provencial)before the Waterlox. Black stains seem to go
too deep for even sanding to remove. Oxalic acid lightens them fine with
several paste applications, but make sure you remove the residue. Even then
I had trouble getting the gloss to come up over those stains and used a
shellac Sealcoat (zinzer) first to cure it.

Now as you have read, I've been sanding, but in doing a room or area at a
time I have transitions and overlap to old areas. The Waterlox seems to
cover and dry without a problem on those small overlaps so what you propose
MAY (?) work. I also have refinished base moldings in the rooms with gloss
poly prior to doing the floors. Again, where I've gotten Waterlox on the
base shoe (etc) it has dried and adhered just fine.

Waterlox seems like a good product and gives a deep richness to the floors.
I am using the older high VOC product which is no longer available here & I
will be switching to the new formula shortly. With the high VOC (volatile
organic compounds) I must work with all windows open, hence no winter floor
refinishing.

Good luck, let us know if you try w/o sanding,it may sand me some work!

Jerry