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On Oct 15, 4:27 pm, Roger wrote:
ISTR that the miniature parquet is rather thin so sanding is probably
best avoided if at all possible.

Loose pieces appear to be about 8mm thick. I'm more worried about
loosening too much of it if I'm aggressive with the sanding - hence
doing it by hand.

It was said at the time that there was such a severe shortage of good
timber that new houses couldn't have suspended wood floors on the ground
floor so if you wanted a wood floor you had to make do with parquet over
solid concrete.

You learn something every day!


I would lightly sand it down to clean wood and then finish with traditional
Bourne Seal. Maintain with a water based acrylic polish. They (ICI or
whoever owned the brand) used to make a Bourne Seal branded one but there
seems no trace of it now. There must be an equivalent out there.

H