Sanding floorboards: how to deal with brad nails and screws?

[toja555]

Hi everyone, this is my first post in this forum I am DIY newbie, just bought a house and trying to do everything myself. I have worn pine floorboards in most of the rooms which I want to sand and varnish. I have read all available information on the preparation of the floorboards, i.e. put nails deeper with nail punch etc. My problem is: the floor has a lot of screws (heads exposing) and brad nails (leveled with the floorboards). How do I nail them 2-3mm down? Brad nails seem very hard to manage in general, and screws look stuck, but maybe they are not?
Please help!

 

[ColJack]

nails = nail punch.. sink em into the wood..

screws = remove end use a countersink and sink them into the wood a bit..

 

[gregers]

well you really answered your own question,you know what you have to do,
maybe with the screws you can take them out?with the nails usea bloody big punch.

 

[toja555]

nails = nail punch.. sink em into the wood..

screws = remove end use a countersink and sink them into the wood a bit..

with brad nails not that easy... the head is wide and thick and it is a big problem to do it with nail punch. Unless there is shaped nail punch somewhere which I don't know about.

Re screws, thank you.