Tore up from the floor up
So we got one room painted, the kitchen, to be specific. And it's yellow. Way yellow. I like it, though, so it's cool. We only had enough time to get one room painted before we had to start on the floors. Yesterday we rented a big drum sander and got started.
The floors in the kitchen had been covered with several layers of linoleum. The adhesive covering them was black and possibly tar-based. So we let the beast eat last night and look what we got underneath...
Shazam! So the living room and hallway also had linoleum, but the adhesive under that was a blue felt-like paper. That stuff is not as tough as the black gunk, but is still going to be a pain.
Stay tuned!
The floors in the kitchen had been covered with several layers of linoleum. The adhesive covering them was black and possibly tar-based. So we let the beast eat last night and look what we got underneath...
Shazam! So the living room and hallway also had linoleum, but the adhesive under that was a blue felt-like paper. That stuff is not as tough as the black gunk, but is still going to be a pain.
Stay tuned!
posted by Connoisseur of Human Folly | 7:00 AM
3 Comments:
LOVE the color. My kitchen is a light green and the rest of the house is a soft yellow. I don't think I could ever do white again.
You're moving in two weeks? I'm utterly impressed.
I have the same adhesive issue right by my front door. So it sanded off okay? I couldn't see clearly enough, was the grain all the same direction? We have the 10" squares with alternating grain direction so I think we have to sand one square at a time.
All of ours runs the same way. I haven't the foggiest idea what to do with parquet floors like that. Our sanded off, but it wasn't easy. It was so old that it had fused pretty tight with the wood. Apparently the trick was to alternate between the really thick stuff and relatively bare spots. If you just keep plowing the thick stuff the sander got all gummed up with it.
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