Considering restoring it, but pine surely wont be very hardwearing..
Is it worth restoring?
Thanks
Is it worth restoring?
Thanks
pine parquet flooring in my hall.. hidden under carpet
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It would be worth it in my opionion. It's most likely to be a harder pine , like pitch pine rather than the junk sold in the sheds nowadays.
finish it with a hardwearing lauqeer or floor wax, put in a door mat and don't have a gravel drive and it will be fine and look better than carpet.
In the house I'm now living in there is "parquet" flooring in the room I'm in now, it caught our eye when we were looking at the place. It was at the time dirty , scuffed and obsured with furniture , rugs , dogs and other junk but when we came to clean it up we discovered that it was made of 4mm ply strips. However, we cleaned it up , replaced a handful of "blocks" and eight years later it still looks good and hasn't worn at all so if bog standard ply is ok then your pine will be more than fine.
finish it with a hardwearing lauqeer or floor wax, put in a door mat and don't have a gravel drive and it will be fine and look better than carpet.
In the house I'm now living in there is "parquet" flooring in the room I'm in now, it caught our eye when we were looking at the place. It was at the time dirty , scuffed and obsured with furniture , rugs , dogs and other junk but when we came to clean it up we discovered that it was made of 4mm ply strips. However, we cleaned it up , replaced a handful of "blocks" and eight years later it still looks good and hasn't worn at all so if bog standard ply is ok then your pine will be more than fine.
With out doubt its worth it, here are some pictures of a restoration job i have done on plain pine parquet;
http://hmcflooring.com/portfolios/mr-mrs-bartholomew/
The floor was stained with an Osmo stain and then finished with Osmo hard wax oil. It will last longer than a carpet and look much nicer. I have been back to this coustomer after a number of years to fit a new parquet floor and the refinished floor still looked lovely and this was despite all of the building work she had done in that time.
http://hmcflooring.com/products/parquet/
http://hmcflooring.com/portfolios/mr-mrs-bartholomew/
The floor was stained with an Osmo stain and then finished with Osmo hard wax oil. It will last longer than a carpet and look much nicer. I have been back to this coustomer after a number of years to fit a new parquet floor and the refinished floor still looked lovely and this was despite all of the building work she had done in that time.
http://hmcflooring.com/products/parquet/
The floor should cost about £300 is probably a touch over to refinish. The hall sounds a bit of a pain though.
Don't know what is happening in the front bedroom, i would have thought that the bitumen would have stopped smelling after so long.
Don't know what is happening in the front bedroom, i would have thought that the bitumen would have stopped smelling after so long.
Yeah the hall will be a right 'mare! Would look good though, and probably cheaper than solid oak planks or not much in it anyway.
Thanks for the idea of a price. Will have a think!
I'm not sure if you have resolved this issue now, but I've never seen parquet flooring originally fitted to bedrooms in Victorian / Edwardian houses (they tended to reserve the grander designs to the ground floor only), therefore there is no guarantee that the bitumen used to stick the bedroom floor down is 90 years old!
Thank you. No not resolved. Actually the front bedroom I am referring to is ground floor, as I have a bungalow. Cheers.
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