old wood floors rehub - your opinions
We have an old wood floors on the second floor of our brownstone- some splits and some not really nice looking imperfections. I had this idea to improve overhead noise situation to put plywood subfloor under this floor. Also, we will be able to put new floor in one of the smaller rooms and use…
We have an old wood floors on the second floor of our brownstone- some splits and some not really nice looking imperfections.
I had this idea to improve overhead noise situation to put plywood subfloor under this floor. Also, we will be able to put new floor in one of the smaller rooms and use this extra wood to replace the most damaged planks.
My brother in law did a lot of floors and he agreed to do this job for us. What do you think about this idea?
We are starting conversion process and will sell this apartment and we want to add value not reduce value as a result of this floor project.
I did it too and it looks great! Agree with Putnam that it’s alot of work, but the end result was worth it. We checked into getting the tongue and grooves re-done, but nobody wanted to put it through their machines. We ended up scraping it by hand. You can always put some antique (repro) nails in the surface to sure it up.
I did that in my house. We pulled up all the flooring (which was wide pine and was probably a subfloor under wall to wall carpet or some other sort of floor covering back in the day), we reinforced fthe floor joist, then glued and nailed plywood. Taking the pine from three floors we found enough good wood for two (the third room became a kitchen and got marmoleum covering). It ended up looking very “country” and rough, but fits into my rather eclectic aesthetic. I probably would rip each board now (cut off the edges on the side), because the tongue and groove was really uneven and I have gaps on the top surface which are hard to clean. That all said, I probably would have been just as happy, if not happier with putting new wood down on the plywood rather than trying to use the old.
Oh, by the way, it was a lot of work (smile).