I have had great joy in the home improvement projects until yesterday. The entire house has beautiful hardwood floors. The previous owner had the hot water heater burst and destroyed the flooring in the bathroom. I was led to believe that the old lady that used to live in the house installed carpet and linoleum over the wood floors because of maintenance issues and the bursting of hot water heater. However the rest of the wood flooring is in great shape, then I tore the linoleum out of the kitchen...f$%#! This is S.O.P. for laying linoleum on top of wood floors. First thing to go down is tar paper as a moisture blocker, then another plywood backing, and then finally the ghastly linoleum. This shit does NOT want to come off of the hard wood floor.
Any suggestions other than recovering the floor or tearing out the original flooring is a last resort, is this what Papa Roach meant by Last Resort and Broken Home? Posers.
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I presume this is the tar backing off of the underside of the plywood?
If you aren't attacking this with a floor sander, you should be. Throw an aggressive grit on there and go nutty on the tar. Do be careful once you've gotten through to the wood.
If it's possible to salvage the existing floor, definitely do so. It may seem tempting to rip it out and lay new hardwood, but I can guarantee you it will be much more work than you're anticipating—and the wood is expensive as hell.
So, sand the tar down and throw some polyurethane on top of it. And enjoy.
We are renting a drum sander for $35 a day. The only problem is we have to drive to the next town to get it, which means nothing to Dan, 25 minute drive and he is still in Seattle.
Hah indeed. I'm pretty sure I filled up the gas tank in the BMW once in all of September.
Also, is this in your kitchen? It just occured to me that you probably don't want to have exposed hardwood in there. Even with the newer polyurethane coatings, hardwood swells really quickly when it's exposed to water (especially out in the land of bone-dry air) so any accidents in the kitchen can lead to floors with sways, bows, and ridges. Suck.
Depending on how thinly you can lay out new backing board, you may want to consider putting tile down. That's what we've got everywhere water is involved (kitchen, baths) and it's really resilient stuff. Definitely much nicer than wood.
We are putting tile into the bathroom. We are trying to keep the house corporate friendly because we plan to move next year. This makes the majority or our endeavors in the house a task of modernization and not personalization.
I do agree with having tile in the 'water' areas, mainly the reason why the bathroom is getting tile. Undecided on the kitchen.
Quarter inch backer board is really cheap at the hardware store for the REALLY good stuff. Our choice may involve more of a cost analysis than preference provided the length we plan to own the home.
what about that engineering board stuff? thats what i'm trying to convince my lardlords to let me install in the kitchen, over the nasty ass carpet.
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