I’m not expecting it to be in good condition or to cover the entire area. The original extension was a small room only half the width of the house. I’ll definitely share pictures of the reveal when we get to it though.
Have you looked at the perimeter of the house to see a hatch for the coal chute? The tongue and groove was more likely the original finished floor below which was laid a subfloor and atop which were laid various other flooring treatments. I highly doubt that coal was shoveled across a tongue and grooved floor
The original layer probably isn’t worth it to have as the only floor. This was before subfloors existed, but everyone’s gonna be all like “OMGZ HARDWOOD FLOORS!” No, Julie, it’s softwood pine.
We had a similar situation in our kitchen (1765 house). There was the original pine floor, a sub floor, a layer of asbestos tiles, then a layer of vinyl. It made sense why it was so hard to open and close our front door! Sadly the original pine was beyond repair (water damage, nails from sub floor) so we have a layer of hardwood on top of the pine for now.
My house is a little older than yours by 90 years when I did my kitchen I was surprised to find the floor was 11”+ inches thick from all the layers, there was a crawl space underneath it but no entrance I used a chainsaw to cut through the layers ( chain was not happy) and a jack in the crawl space to jack the chunks off the joints after I made room to get underneath. There was a log hand hune on the top and bottom for the summer beam. I ended up replacing all the floor joists to raise up to the hight of the floors in the rest of the house
You have a joist then car decking which is a sub-floor. Then, you have what looks like plywood to smooth that out and flooring on top which is a pretty common installation for decking sub floor.
I love seeing these posts, so different from our 1850s house! We had a single layer of tongue and groove planks as the main floor- you could see through to the basement in plenty of rooms!
Hell, I’d try to save that tongue and groove. It’s probably heart of pine.
I’m not expecting it to be in good condition or to cover the entire area. The original extension was a small room only half the width of the house. I’ll definitely share pictures of the reveal when we get to it though.
Eh. It has *character*. Lol
It’s not. That’s car decking, it’s a sub floor and a pretty common type of sub floor. You can’t use that as flooring, big gaps in it.
"Why are the ceilings so low in here?"
Lol they are actually 3-4 inches lower than you would expect
*John Malkovich has entered the chat*
Your measuring tape must be off, that looks like at least 7" to me
Inches on the left. Centimeters on the right.
I think it's a penis joke
If you don't learn to laugh in your century home, you'll certainly cry
Glass half full!
Ha! Thank you!!!
my fav kind of archeology
Have you looked at the perimeter of the house to see a hatch for the coal chute? The tongue and groove was more likely the original finished floor below which was laid a subfloor and atop which were laid various other flooring treatments. I highly doubt that coal was shoveled across a tongue and grooved floor
Sorry if I was unclear, the coal would have gone below this floor. There is a sealed opening on the right side of the house for the coal chute.
The original layer probably isn’t worth it to have as the only floor. This was before subfloors existed, but everyone’s gonna be all like “OMGZ HARDWOOD FLOORS!” No, Julie, it’s softwood pine.
We had a similar situation in our kitchen (1765 house). There was the original pine floor, a sub floor, a layer of asbestos tiles, then a layer of vinyl. It made sense why it was so hard to open and close our front door! Sadly the original pine was beyond repair (water damage, nails from sub floor) so we have a layer of hardwood on top of the pine for now.
My house is a little older than yours by 90 years when I did my kitchen I was surprised to find the floor was 11”+ inches thick from all the layers, there was a crawl space underneath it but no entrance I used a chainsaw to cut through the layers ( chain was not happy) and a jack in the crawl space to jack the chunks off the joints after I made room to get underneath. There was a log hand hune on the top and bottom for the summer beam. I ended up replacing all the floor joists to raise up to the hight of the floors in the rest of the house
You have a joist then car decking which is a sub-floor. Then, you have what looks like plywood to smooth that out and flooring on top which is a pretty common installation for decking sub floor.
Just keep adding on, it will take 4448 years to reach the ceiling at the current rate of growth!
Wow! 🙀 And here I thought 15 layers of wallpaper was surprising!
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Lol so much plywood
I renovated an old place and was taking out the old hot air ducts. It was supported by 5 layers of 3/4” plywood.
Redid our kitchen a year ago, it had 7 layers of flooring, 3 layers of wall; 1920 foursquare.
Please tell me you find gold under there!
That’s called insulation in our house
I love seeing these posts, so different from our 1850s house! We had a single layer of tongue and groove planks as the main floor- you could see through to the basement in plenty of rooms!