text:  when you have people in the house that are gonna be giving it a lot of wear and tear, dragging in the sand from the outside, the dirt, the mud, whatever, it's just not a good choice. So what I would do is I would lightly sand the floor, assuming it's not in bad condition, I would lightly sand it. There's a machine, a couple different machines that are like pad sanders that don't take off a lot of wood, but they take off the finish.