3 rooms with pine floorboards: hallway, lounge, kids' room. The hallway and kids' room seem to have original boards (or nice ones anyway), while the boards in the lounge are more recent, and really shoddy (variable widths, someone's cut through a load of them in a line, some split, etc). We want to pull up the boards in the lounge and replace them. And we want them to look like the boards in the other rooms.
Do we use reclaimed boards? We're thinking reclaimed will be better for looking the same (assuming we get the right varnish), but then we'll have extra holes (assuming original holes don't line up with joists). The main problem, though, is all of the boards in the other rooms span the entire width of the rooms (4m+ some of them), and the reclaimed yards I've spoken to say their boards aren't that long. Which means the lounge would be the only room with joins.
If we use new floorboards, there's the problem of distressing them, but the main difficulty seems to be I can't find floorboards which aren't tongue and groove on sale anywhere. And I'm not sure I can get them long enough either.
Anyone got any ideas on what my chance are of getting boards over 3.6m long without tongues and grooves? Cheers.
Do we use reclaimed boards? We're thinking reclaimed will be better for looking the same (assuming we get the right varnish), but then we'll have extra holes (assuming original holes don't line up with joists). The main problem, though, is all of the boards in the other rooms span the entire width of the rooms (4m+ some of them), and the reclaimed yards I've spoken to say their boards aren't that long. Which means the lounge would be the only room with joins.
If we use new floorboards, there's the problem of distressing them, but the main difficulty seems to be I can't find floorboards which aren't tongue and groove on sale anywhere. And I'm not sure I can get them long enough either.
Anyone got any ideas on what my chance are of getting boards over 3.6m long without tongues and grooves? Cheers.