FLOOR SURFACING.
A new floor hardly requires any professional attention to make it fit to dance upon. Half a day's work will give it an excellent surface. It will have to be polished -with a mixture of sawdust and ready-prepared sterene wax—about two cups of sterene to a buck* of sawdust. The sawdust, which can be got from any timber mills, should not be oily. Work the wax well into it. and throw this mixture on the floor Tbea put a few brick* in a box, wrap the box m a blanket, attach it to a rope, and polish the floor by dragging *be box up and down. The dancers themselves will do much to work the mixture into the floor with their feet Throw down a lew handf ula of it before the dance. If the floor is old, warped and uneven, it will need to b» planed Wlt ? •» electric machine by a floor •nrfaeing company.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 24
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157FLOOR SURFACING. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 24
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