Remove old wooden flooring or not?

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In our bungalow which was build around 1962 I found sort of a wooden flooring underneath the carpet in the 2 bedrooms, hallway and lounge.
The kitchen has vinyl flooring glued on top of a concrete floor. As I'm currently refurbishing one of the bedrooms I was wondering if it would be wise to take the wooden floor out completely as it seems to be made up out of dark brown wooden blocks with a dimension of 14x4.5cm and 1cm thickness. There's sort of a black very thin sticky underlay underneath the wooden blocks on top of the concrete.
I would then just have an underlay on the concrete and have the new carpet installed on top of that.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! ;)
 
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The black 'underlayment' is bitumen, a hell of a job to get rid off!
The brown wood blocks in the dimension you mentioned could be Rhodesian Teak, Mahogany or Merbau solid parquet, you don't want to know what people are paying these days to have that ;)
If it's still sound I suggest you leave it as it is, it will keep it's value definitely.
 

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