Varnished wooden floors in a period house are tough in character easy to clean and look really attractive which is the reason they work great in any busy family home.
Old house floorboards.
New boards may be needed where earlier floorboards have been substituted with a less appropriate material.
With a little know how you can silence faulty floorboards and repair minor damage.
To find out why we have to turn to american history.
Sand a small inconspicuous area and see what the floor looks like under the years of dirt.
He is a graduate of cornell university s historic preservation program and was a contributing editor for old house journal for 17 years.
It might be possible to retain and cover old boards beyond repair but where this is unrealistic replacement will be required.
So restoring floorboards is a good way to go.
One feature common to many houses of the 18th and early 19th centuries is wide plank floorboards.
Reclaimed wood is often as old and full of character as the floors in a house two centuries old or perhaps more.
Saw marks were original on early floors.
Even the most horrible looking floorboards can scrub up well.
It is still popular to expose the floorboards instead of carpeting in many of the older houses.
The history of wood flooring.