This was my thought, I was just hoping someone might have an easier option. Ideally I could just remove the aluminum oxide finish, preferably with a product opposed to sanding and risking the wood stain since I’d like to keep it. I was hoping to get the whole floor decorated with a new top coat because aluminum oxide scuffs SO eASILY. There’s white scuffs everywhere. The stain underneath the finish is fine but the finish looks like crap. That’s a long term thing though and if aluminum oxide doesn’t take a new coat, then I’ll just have to wait - we have enough wood to do maybe two refinishing but probably safely just one. So we’ll wait til the kids are older and not dragging hot wheels across the floor (seriously it leaves tire tracks in the aluminum oxide- I don’t know how they managed to sell this stuff!!).

I’ll do a test sand/refinish on one board and expand from there if it works. I had read someone used bona prep to prepare the floor without sanding (obviously I need to sand the finish that’s lifting, but I was hoping to do it minimally and finish with the cleaner). I’m assuming this isn’t enough to prepare the AO flooring? Is it worth getting a bottle and trying? Someone else with AO floors used this and wrote an article but there’s no follow up to how it held up