Remove all the furniture, and spray the floor with a hardwood flooring cleaner or your own mix of 10 parts water to 1 part white vinegar. Gently wipe the floor with a terry-cloth mop or a towel wrapped around a mop head. Close the windows and doors to keep dust contained in the room you're sanding. About $200.
Upside Down Flag. Flying the American flag upside down is an officially recognized signal of distress. Here is the relevant part of the US Code of Laws regarding how to fly the flag when in distress: THE UNITED STATES FLAG CODE Title 4, Chapter 1.
I gained the impression from this that it is possible that the practice of flying the ensign upside down as a distress signal might not have been a very widespread custom, if at all. The latest edition of the International Code of Signals (2005) list the following methods of signaling distress: 1. Sound signals: firing a gun or any other explosive means; continuous sounding of the fog horn; firing rockets or shells throwing red stars one at a time at intervals â in other words anything to draw attention to the ships plight. 2.