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Can we talk about the weirdest subfloor I ever had to deal with?
Last month I was pulling up old carpet in a 1920s house in Cincinnati and found the subfloor was made of 1x6 pine planks, which I expected. But they had laid a full layer of old newspapers from 1947 over the planks, then put tar paper on top of that, and then the carpet pad. The papers were perfectly preserved and had headlines about some local baseball game. I had to scrape off all that tar paper and newsprint before I could even think about putting down the new LVP. It added a solid three hours to the job. Has anyone else run into a weird historical layer like that under old flooring?
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adams.taylor2mo ago
Three hours for some old paper seems like a lot. That's just part of the job in old houses, you find weird stuff. I would have just rolled the new floor right over it.
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