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fletchl
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Hi there,
I'm doing up an old red brick terraced house and it has red deal floorboards throughout. I sanded the floorboards upstairs and they came up well, and I was hoping to do the same downstairs. However the quality of the floorboards downstairs is a little patchy, lovely floorboards in most parts, but where the hall was (i've just knocked the dividing wall between the hall and living room area to make it open plan,) and under the stairs the boards are either in bad shape or oddly placed.
I was hoping to fix this by laying matching boards in these areas. I thought of taking them from one of the rooms upstairs which I could then replace with pine and possibly carpet. Alternatively I could maybe source boards from a similar terraced house where people have opted for newer flooring.
For an easier life I could go for carpet, but its not really the look I was hoping for and I've come so far with the house that I feel it would be a shame to fall at the last hurdle.
Any advice??? On whether I'm completely mad, whether it would be possible to use the boards from upstairs or on where I might source second hand red deal boards (the old wide ones!)
Thanks,
Laura
I'm doing up an old red brick terraced house and it has red deal floorboards throughout. I sanded the floorboards upstairs and they came up well, and I was hoping to do the same downstairs. However the quality of the floorboards downstairs is a little patchy, lovely floorboards in most parts, but where the hall was (i've just knocked the dividing wall between the hall and living room area to make it open plan,) and under the stairs the boards are either in bad shape or oddly placed.
I was hoping to fix this by laying matching boards in these areas. I thought of taking them from one of the rooms upstairs which I could then replace with pine and possibly carpet. Alternatively I could maybe source boards from a similar terraced house where people have opted for newer flooring.
For an easier life I could go for carpet, but its not really the look I was hoping for and I've come so far with the house that I feel it would be a shame to fall at the last hurdle.
Any advice??? On whether I'm completely mad, whether it would be possible to use the boards from upstairs or on where I might source second hand red deal boards (the old wide ones!)
Thanks,
Laura