The Historic District

Here is the wood on the first floor.

Hi everyone, thank you for all the information and suggestions. I’m really enjoying finding out what’s underneath all this laminate. I wanted a more historic home, but this house was in the right location at the right price so that won out. The house isn’t very historic anymore except for the stairc...

Okay, thanks so much. Yeah, I think they didn’t care at all and just went wild with the paint sprayer. With any luck, it will all come off easily. I took up a laminate piece downstairs and looks like thin face-nailed oak strip flooring. I wonder why the tongue and groove upstairs but face-nail downs...

Hi, thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. My house is a 2 and 1/2 story wood frame house on poured concrete in Ontario. From fire insurance records I actually think they house is older than 1911 but need to do more digging. Real estate developers got a hold of it and really destroyed or covered up...

My house was built in 1911. Do these wood floors under the laminate look like they could be from that time period or done later? What is the white stuff on it (paint? Adhesive?). I tried to get pictures of the cross section of the wood were you can see the the width of the wood, it’s pretty narrow, ...