Imagine my delight as we lifted the carpets in the study. Wood. Real wood. And good, real wood at that. The master bedroom floor is just as good. I want carpets mostly, but in the study I'd love a restored wood floor with a HUGE rug, amongst walls of bookcases. Some of the floorboards in the study have been sawn into sections to access the central heating pipes below, but there's plenty of full ones we can pinch from elsewhere in the house. I don't want them sanded pristine, though. I want to keep the texture, and just clean off the muck before I varnish them.
There's a concrete (?) hearth in the study that is cracked in places and is proud of the floor. There won't be a fire in the study so I'd like this dug out so I can run the floorboards all the way to the wall.
Do any of you have experience in stripping and sanding floors? You can comment on the blog without signing in.
Well, we're just about to start on some very similar floors, just around the corner in Cooper Street!
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