You can see the gray plastic of the new drain above. 

Plastic or rubber runner, covering almost the whole step.

It arrived in a plastic bag with apologies from the USPS.

Then use chem sponges also referred to as dry cleaning sponges (Quick tip: You can tear them in the middle like opening a sandwich and get double the use out of them and get a pole that extends with one of those plastic adjustable mop head clamps) to wipe everything that's left.

I am planning on stripping out the cheap floors (made out of plastic material) to sand and polish out the wooden floors underneath.

Short answer = if your ROI is good and you don't need a $500K heart surgery, be happy.  :-)

Smaller deals give you an opportunity to be more plastic.

A surgeon gets paid about $800 to remove a leg when the gangrene threatens to spread throughout the body or $1500 to rid the body of colon cancer (that is inclusive of all of the care after surgery for the 90 day global period).

So far we haven't had any direct contact with the homeowner (she is undergoing surgery and we don't want to bother her), but have been granted access to the property (w/homeowner's knowledge) through a neighbor.  

WPC stands for WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITE kinda like decking material.