My wobbly old floor

yola · 17-05-2006, 01:11 PM

Having just polished my lovely old basement hallway floor, I thought I'd show it to you all. When we moved in 8 years ago, this floor was covered by a carpet (horrid green thing that was throughout most of the house). When we came to redecorate the hallway (this took some motivation as starting meant continuing up a further 4 floors

), we took the carpet up only to find a concrete floor. Thankfully it was a little chipped in the corner so I continued to chip away at it and bit by bit we discovered this beautiful floor underneath. It cleaned and polished up beautifully, and it is uneven and worn by 200 years of feet treading a patch from the basement up through the house. I just adore this fact.

It's one of my most favourite jobs in the house. Waxing the floor then polishing it up and seeing it shine!!! How sad

dinahsmum · 17-05-2006, 01:19 PM

That is lovely!

isn't it wicked what was done to old houses (usually in the 60s?). Our old (?1880) artesan's town centre cottage (30+ years ago) (2 up/2 down) had revolting brick printed wallpaper and even worse sort of cheapo-cheapo wood laminate 'mantel' on the chimney breast, with the worst sort of electric fire in front. Removed all, took aim with a sledgehammer, etc etc ....... voila, a lovely old inglenook (OK, brick not stone, but still original) and the old iron range, smashed up and stuffed up the chimney!)

yola · 17-05-2006, 01:32 PM

It is sad DM . . . we had to replace every single fireplace in our house - not one remained only 2 gas fires that needed to be condemned (dangerous AND ugly

).

We bought a gorgeous hob grate for our 1st floor dining room fireplace (research told us that is what would have been there). We got it in a reclaimation yard in Bath and would you know it was an exact fit for the hole??? Almost as if it were destined to go in there

Thankfully the floor wasn't taken up (being in the basement it's actually just laid on the ground . . . no foundations you see

), only covered up. The only damage is small holes where the carpet grippers were nailed in

Mags · 17-05-2006, 01:55 PM

Plenty of elbow grease has gone into getting that lovely shine on the floor Yola!

Very nice!

yola · 17-05-2006, 02:04 PM

I have a buffing machine Mags . . .

Hreow · 17-05-2006, 02:35 PM

Polished wood is well worth the work. Love wood.

yola · 17-05-2006, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hreow

Polished wood is well worth the work. Love wood.

Interesting you say it's wood. I suppose I took it for granted that they looked like the brick paviors that they are, but looking again yes, they do actually look like wood!! Sorry - I should have made it clear what they were

Jac · 17-05-2006, 04:52 PM

With all that polish you better not slip! Looks brilliant. What a lot of hard work.

Donna · 17-05-2006, 05:09 PM

I too prefer the original features. I have two original Victorian/Edwardian fireplaces in my house, although two have been removed over time. Would like to go to a reclaimation yard to see if I could get fireplaces that would fit into my house.... maybe in time... when I have some money!!!

Moli · 17-05-2006, 05:32 PM

Thatys really nice Yola, nothing like original floors...

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