Cleaning the floor

So as you might imagine, we created a lot of dust with all that sanding. And dust + polyurathane = bumpy floors. So before putting down the poly we had to get all the dust off. And I mean all of it. We started by wiping down the ceiling. Laugh all you want, but it was dusty! Then we did the walls and then the floor. We used a swiffer to begin with and that worked well on the ceiling and walls, but when we got to the floor they started getting chewed up. So we used the microfiber clothes and that worked well.

Now, what we didn't do, and what we learned later we should have, was to use a rag soaked in mineral spirits to do the final pass, basically just t-shirt material dipped in in, not dripping, but wet. How did we learn this little gem? more on that later...