hanging in there, kinda getting used to everything now, I finally finished getting all the black vynal glue off the floor with lots of effort.
had to diagonal cut the floor both ways with 24 grit, then run it all out with 24 grit followed by a diagonal cut both ways then run out with a 40 grit just to get back to bare boards and to flatten out the cupping, but have now progressed a little further with the job, the edges of the room proved to be a battle in them selves as i had to start with a 24 grit disc which was only getting about 2 liniel metres before clogging up with glue, if you have ever tried to sand that black bitumun under the body of a car you will know what i am talking about, times that by 95 square metres lo, any way i have used three boxes of 24 grit edging disks just to get back to the timber, then i had to repeat the prosess with 40 60 and 100 grit. The floor now has the first coat applied and tomorrow i can start all over again at the homestead that is about 10 k's down the track, at least the homestead is glue free.
I will upload some more pics when i put the final coats on. my batteries went flat this arv and i only got the before coating pics.
here is the floor ready for the vacume and first coat, It came up not too bad concidering all the glue it had on it.
cheers barnsey
before.and during, first cut accross the grain :shock:

house still has the old phone on the wall, the type you wind the handle to contact the operator, the box on the floor contains two eveready batteries that are as big as a coke can. this cottage was first built in the 1800's and has been through a few reno's over the years. i asked the property owner if there were any old cars on the property and he told me that he cleaned the place up about 10 years ago, the scrapies came out and removed about 15 old fords chevs and dodges, they were all complete and had been left where ever they had broken down on the property over the years, he said that most of them even still had the keys in them, he got $250 for them and the guy who got them just loaded them on top of each other and crushed them with the hiab, he said that a couple of them could of probably been driven if they had a fresh battery. :shock: