Post by shin on Jun 16, 2015 19:56:24 GMT
I have just moved into my new old house..
Having started ripping up the carpeting and looking underneath it throughout the house I have made the discovery that it is from top to bottom, under the decayed carpets and vinyl, hardwood floors of some kind. Everywhere hardwood floors.
And I have discovered those floors are the reason it feels like walking on the ocean throughout the house. Especially the first floor, less so the second but still discernibly to the foot. I haven't ripped up enough to see if the waviness is noticeable to the eye, but it is to the feet.
The hardwood I measured with a measuring tape is in inch thick. Checking underneath it.. I made the discovery..
There is nothing. Absolutely nothing, the wood floor was set directly to the joists with no plywood or underlayment whatsoever.
In the cellar, if I look up, yes, there it is, the bottom of the planks all right set on the joists.
On the second floor there's the plaster ceiling, but I am sure, knock a hole in it, there it will be like the first floor.
Now the wood, to my mind, if it were sanded down, might be appearance wise salvageable. And perhaps it could be sanded flat?
But what to do if it were sanded flat from this just continuing in the future? Do I rip it all up and see if it can survive that and be set down again on plywood and a moisture barrier? Do I sand it flat and just try to put some sort of moisture barrier between the joists under it in strips so I don't have to tear it up?
What to do.. what to do..
Definitely have to get the gutters up to stabilize the humidity that's one thing, the cellar which was dry when I visited before, suffers during the torrential thunderstorms from the partial lack of gutters.
Having started ripping up the carpeting and looking underneath it throughout the house I have made the discovery that it is from top to bottom, under the decayed carpets and vinyl, hardwood floors of some kind. Everywhere hardwood floors.
And I have discovered those floors are the reason it feels like walking on the ocean throughout the house. Especially the first floor, less so the second but still discernibly to the foot. I haven't ripped up enough to see if the waviness is noticeable to the eye, but it is to the feet.
The hardwood I measured with a measuring tape is in inch thick. Checking underneath it.. I made the discovery..
There is nothing. Absolutely nothing, the wood floor was set directly to the joists with no plywood or underlayment whatsoever.
In the cellar, if I look up, yes, there it is, the bottom of the planks all right set on the joists.
On the second floor there's the plaster ceiling, but I am sure, knock a hole in it, there it will be like the first floor.
Now the wood, to my mind, if it were sanded down, might be appearance wise salvageable. And perhaps it could be sanded flat?
But what to do if it were sanded flat from this just continuing in the future? Do I rip it all up and see if it can survive that and be set down again on plywood and a moisture barrier? Do I sand it flat and just try to put some sort of moisture barrier between the joists under it in strips so I don't have to tear it up?
What to do.. what to do..
Definitely have to get the gutters up to stabilize the humidity that's one thing, the cellar which was dry when I visited before, suffers during the torrential thunderstorms from the partial lack of gutters.
