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As I mentioned in my earlier post about plaster repair, we’re down to the maid’s room in our restoration. It’s 11×6, and the w/d take up some of that floor space (they’re mounted/leveled on marine ply base, which I’m not going to touch). To sand the red pine floor, seems like it would be extreme overkill to rent a drum sander. My first thought is a 4″x24″ belt sander. It’ll be slow but cheap and lightweight. I suppose I could rent an edge sander but they’re pretty heavy. Any other ideas? It’s such a small area that I can just do the edges/corners by hand.

Thanks.