{"id":227,"date":"2012-10-23T02:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2012-10-23T02:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:59:34","slug":"floors-save-the-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Floors… Save the floors!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sliding in a board to save the tongue and groove.<\/p><\/div>\n

Decades ago, when the owners of the house retrofitted it with electric, rather than tear out the laths and plaster, they cut out the tongues of the floor boards and pulled them up. \u00a0FUCKERS! \u00a0Now we have to replace those boards, but with what?<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago we replaced the bathroom floor with 3\/4″ plywood. \u00a0We saved the boards we pulled up. \u00a0Most of them are in rough shape be it termites or water damage, but that’s all we had.<\/p>\n

We started by replacing boards with matching width donors. \u00a0They went in easy enough, but seemed to have huge gaps. \u00a0It was really a let down as a first impression. \u00a0What do we do next?<\/p>\n

Once we cleaned all the dirt, plaster and paint from all the other gaps in the floor, we realized that these 1\/8″ gaps were pretty standard. \u00a0With the doubts behind us, we forged on. \u00a0We managed to replace all the boards we had matches for.<\/p>\n

To get down to a few final boards our friend Ian was kind enough to lend us his table saw so we could cut down some boards and add a groove so they would fit better. \u00a0This gave us enough certainty that we could move along with installing the PEX under the floors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We still have one more floor board to go. \u00a0We’ve scoured Second Chance, a local architectural salvage company, but found no 7\/8″ pine wide enough. \u00a0Might need to make it from new wood.<\/p>\n

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