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Our home was built in the 1850s and only had the beautiful random width plank floors with no sub floor. We installed radiant floor heat from the underside and used the reflective foil hardboard insulation. The floors are alot warmer than they have been but we are still having some air infiltration. ...
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When you say leveling, are you speaking of tearing down the house or making the house level because one side of the rooms are higher than the other? I ask because some of these terms have mare than one meaning. If you are talking about leveling the floors and not tearing the house down, write again ...
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Hi All! I am redoing a house started in the 1800s and updated in 1930s. I want to redo and re-use the 1 inch plank floors on the second floor. My dillemma is that the walls were tongue and grove, but the floors are not,creating a large up to quarter inch gap. I am thinking of using a caulk (or sumth...
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Is this only for use on Pine floors? We have quarter sawn white oak floors through out. Do you know if it would still work. Is this suppose to be a cleaning solvent? Donna
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I recently bought a home with hardwood floors throughout that were carpeted over. I plan on removing all of the carpeting and refinishing the hardwood floors to original (1930s). The first room that I started in I hit a speed bump. I removed the carpeting and found that there are alot of paint spill...
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That depends!!! I once was asked to inspect a house like that for prospective purchase by a customer in Corona. The upper floor was completely bowed! It turned out the owners had removed a SUPPORT wall from the middle of the lower floor, and then built a cheesy staircase up through the floor above. ...
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Ive removed glued carpet from hardwood floors. Scrape up as much as you can, dont worry if you scratch the finish just dont gouge the floors. I went right to sanding the floors with a drum sander, but you might want to try something to remove the glue like Goof-off. But if your only softening the gl...
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You might try it in some out of sight area to see what happens. I found that different brands of oil give slightly different results to I then stuck to one brand. I have heard that this is particularly friendly to pine floors due to harmonious colors, but am not an expert or even competent at these ...
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I have a basement, obviously with concrete floors. There are a few problems I am having..... I had carpet covering the majority of the floor and some adhesive tile on another part. Over the years, both the tile and the carpet have been saturated dy dog urine by the previous owners. I am remodeling a...
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I found goof-off is suppose to work the best to get it off and little to no cost and dont have to sand! I have rental home and that is what we are using in the Hallway to get the paint off that they put on the wonderful hardwood floors under the carpet! You sand them you will have to re varnish and ...
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