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Every house I’ve ever lived in had pine subfloors laid on the diagonal. Pine that old is going to be very hard, which may be very good for your use.
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The house may be 200 years old. Doesn’t mean all the subfloor is original.
However, old pine more than 50 years, closer to 100 and older, is likely to be really good quality unless it was laid in the dirt or attacked by termites.
Mrs. G and I looked at one old house where the floor joists were quite in the dirt. Termites tore it up. We passed.
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(05-11-2020, 05:16 PM)Gary G™ Wrote: The house may be 200 years old. Doesn’t mean all the subfloor is original.
However, old pine more than 50 years, closer to 100 and older, is likely to be really good quality unless it was laid in the dirt or attacked by termites.
Mrs. G and I looked at one old house where the floor joists were quite in the dirt. Termites tore it up. We passed.
The town and neighboring towns that these are at pretty much ever old home has some sort of basement
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Old lumber is a lot of work. Our house still has the original pine floors. 1x4. Hard as a rock.
$2.00 lineal foot sounds high to me.
Our whole interior was still boxcar siding when we bought it. 18 layers of paint.....lol
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(05-12-2020, 09:51 AM)Stwood_ Wrote: Old lumber is a lot of work. Our house still has the original pine floors. 1x4. Hard as a rock.
$2.00 lineal foot sounds high to me.
Our whole interior was still boxcar siding when we bought it. 18 layers of paint.....lol
What do you mean by a lot of work. Like taking off the paint? I wouldn't think subfloor would have paint on it unless it was like yours and was boxcar siding. I thought 2.00 a linear foot sounded high as well.
I got some more pictures of the wood atleast one other board. It looks like it was definitely subfloor with the amount of holes from the flooring in it
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Lots of work.....Ck'ing, removing metal/nails.
Jointing an edge, removing tongues and grooves.
Cleaning up with a planer, then you do not have 3/4" lumber. 5/8" if you are lucky.
Dulling knives from embedded dirt, maybe hitting metal.
May have staples from having carpet tacked down, who knows...
Not much more work than rough saw lumber.
But it may be an enjoyable project for you.
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That works out to about $3 a board foot, allowing for the ripping off of the T&G (which I think I see in one pic). For slightly less per bd/ft you can get 5/4 soft maple (somewhat harder than the pine), and you don't have to fuss so much with stock prep, and you'll end up with a full 1" thickness. So I'd pass, as he's pricing this for the "chic reclaimed shiplap wall" crowd (not that there's something wrong with that :-) )
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