Well the bathroom is cleared out, and the footings are drying for the support beam I want to put in so when we put in tiles the floor will be solid and the grout won't crack. As I wait for the cement to set for a few days I thought I would do some prep work to re-do the header between the kitchen and dinning room. In order for the support beams to be fitted properly I have to remove the old flooring, down to the sub floor and not just build up on top of old material. As I try to carefully remove the old pine tongue and grove floor boards we noticed they were not just nailed in through the tongue, as they should be so the nails are concealed, someone in their infinite wisdom decided to nail them strait down through the top, a mess to remove. And as happened when we removed other flooring we find out what has happened over the years. Under this floor was an old lino flooring and old news papers seperating it from the original pine boards. All I have found so far is "The Star Weekly Magazine" dated December 9, 1961, laid over the old knotty pine floor boards. And yes they will be coming up as well.
Part of the dining room pulled up exposing the old lino that was painted.
You can see where this is in the other picture. They just painted around what ever was here, we can at least see what the old floor looked like.
Exposing the news paper.
The Star Weekly Magazine, December 9, 1961.
