Well, we finally got the floors up and back to my Sussex shop (the Searsville shop isn't up and running yet). There were a lot of nails, the old square ones, and several newer ones holding them down. And one thing I learnt watching all those home reno and New Yankee Workshop shows is there can still be hidden dangers in the the wood. At least dangerous to my tools. I found quite a bit of material still in the wood and it would have caused havoc to my planer and jointer blades, as well as my router bit for cutting in the grove and tenons. But thanks to a simple $20.oo metal detector I have reduced the chance of damaging my tools. I know it's not perfect but I'll take what I can. It took ReBecca and I about 10 days to pull up all of the floors, and pull the nails. It took me anther 3 days to scan each board for hidden nails. There are 87 boards all just over 11 feet and range from 4 to 10 inches wide, 40 boards 6 feet long and 20 shorter ones 3 feet long. Here is what we have to work with for flooring and what we pulled out and found.
The boards on the saw horse are from my office.
These are from the living room.
This large pile is from the master bedroom, the dressing room and upstairs hallway.
These are from my office closet and I already planned them to see what I have to work with. Very nice.
This is what I found after scaning each board.
This is the pile of nails we pulled out at the house.
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