Sorry, I don't have a photo of the floor that doesn't include a cat or dog. Which is part of the problem with all those nails. The floor has been down since around '88 or '89. And I've had it with this floor. It is impossible to keep clean; the sealer lasts about as long as a gnat's blink and it has reached the age of obsolence in my opinion.

It is terribly expensive to take up, what with all that cement grout that has to be ground down. What to do? A vendor said it could be coated with a substance that's essentially "the same as cool deck". Besides the fact that I don't know squat about that, it is also expensive.

Please help me come up with ideas! I'd like to clean it and paint it, but with what? All outside-the-box ideas welcome.