Before

Jarad's floor was so bad that he had to tear everything out and install his own floor from scratch:

And look at this excellent demonstration of safe containment of sanding dust - well done, Jarad!

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James B. had one of the worst sets of "before"
pictures we had ever seen.  Check out the horrifying cross-cut scratch that he discovered
when he pulled up his carpet:

And he had this too:

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Lynn A. had a kitchen covered
with old linoleum adhesive

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After

Sanding is always better when you have
help from your dad:

Jarad chose to finish the sanded floor with Waterlox,  a tung-oil based penetrating finish.

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But James still managed to salvage his floor, which turned out to be birch:

Now, it did take five passes with four different grits to make it this lovely.  The finish is three layers
of an oil-modified polyurethane.

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But she sanded it all off!
She says: 
"I forgot to mention how impressed I was at how odorless these products have become!! Incredible. Turned out to be a very good time of year to do this, with the drier air and all. A pleasure doing business with you all as usual."