Taking up the Floors

One of the big projects we can do that doesn't cost too much is re-do the floors boards upstairs. Three of the rooms and the hall all have the original floor boards. One room already had them removed and plywood was laid. As well the living room had plywood on it, and once we lifted it we found the original floors. They will be used to finish the three rooms upstairs as I will be cleaning up the boards, cutting in tongue and groves, this will leave me short a few boards per room. As well some of the boards didn't what to come up without a fight. Here are a few pictures of what we found as the sub-floor and a few surprises we found under them.

I took this picture just as we started pulling up the floors these nails did not come easily. As well these are only from a few boards, we have two large coffee cans full of these vintage nails now.

This is the master bedroom, we don't know why there is a hole in the middle of the floor.

Here is the dressing room, I had to leave the boards in the closet because they go all the way into the the closet in the master bedroom under the framed in walls.

In the dressing room under a loose board we found out what the ceilings in the living room look like. More work next project? Also I found an old wire lying there, I was happy to find it wasn't live and that the other end was under the boards in the master bedroom, I was able to pull it out of the way.

The sub-floor in the spare room was in rough shape, but not too bad.

The hall didn't seem like a big job but still took a while. Almost as many nails as the other rooms.

Here is my office, were we found a big surprise.

This plug box was just tucked under the boards and is still live. Our first surprise.

The second surprise was this junction box feeding the light in the kitchen below. An easy fix when we pull down that ceiling.

Finally the living room, it was strange to find flooring paper under these boards, but on the left side of the picture you can see were there was a wall at one time and under the layers of floor covering was tar paper. Very strange.