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Pictures of the floor tear out

March 3rd, 2009 at 05:34 pm

Since I know how much you guys love pictures. Here we go.



This is layer one. Its a cream color with pink "grout" lines. The gray you see is the bottom side tearing off because it had been glued down.



This layer was meant to match the lime green countertop and looks very much like the tiles on the walls.



We have two layers of pressed cardboard associated with layers 2 and 3. So the total addition in height was about 3 inches.



Really don't even know what to say for this layer...



This layer is attached to the subfloor and is extremely smooth. We think we might leave it and just put the new layer over it since this gets us back down to an even floor and the actual layer is extremely thin and glued on.

This is DH's project while waiting for the new job to start. I look forward to seeing the new floor being put down.

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11 Responses to “Pictures of the floor tear out”

  1. Broken Arrow Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 05:39 pm 1236101989
    1236101989

    Hehe, interesting pictures. Probably more interesting for us to look at than for your hubby to put up with it.

  2. North Georgia Gal Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 06:29 pm 1236104940
    1236104940

    If floors could talk!!

  3. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 07:26 pm 1236108413
    1236108413

    Wow, three inches! What a job!

    Do you know what Masonite is? That layer that looks like cardboard is probably Masonite. In her blog, Whitestripe mentions pulling it up from the floors in her new house in Australia, too. The one with the little squares was supposed to look like terrazzo and was common in the early 1960s. It was available in a commercial grade as well as a home grade. I remember Walgreens drugstores used to cover their check-out counters with it. Smile Err, you do know about the possibility of asbestos being present in both the flooring materials and the adhesives, don't you? Plenty of info on the web. Your local dump may have special instructions for disposing of it. Ours will take it, but it must be bagged.

    I wonder if your bottom layer is asphalt? How old is your house? Asphalt floors were popular just after WWII and were sometimes tiles but sometimes whole, unseamed floors. Sometimes it pitted terribly, but I think they also had a way of infusing it with plastic that made a really hard surface.

    Gosh, I didn't realize I knew this much about floors.

  4. Caoineag Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 08:38 pm 1236112724
    1236112724

    I know about the potential for the asbestos. Since its greatest risk lies in being air borne and these tiles are being pulled in large sheets, the risk is fairly minimal. As to removal from the property, we will be using a pod service which will recycle what it can and trash the rest with regards to proper disposal. (Though to be fair, I didn't think about the asbestos till half way through pulling it up so had to do some checking. Just finished before you posted. Fortunately none of our stuff is crumbling or dusty).

    As to the age of the house, it was built in 1951. I have no idea what the bottom layer is but we aren't inclined to pull it up since we couldn't get it up in whole pieces.

  5. whitestripe Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 09:13 pm 1236114797
    1236114797

    with asbestos, you can wet it and it will be fine. so if you are majorly worried about it (which you probably don't need to) just get a bucket of water and a sponge and wet eash slab before you take it up.

    it looks a little like the masonite we pulled up but hard to tell from the picture- people usually use it to even off if the sub floor isn't even.

    i might have missed this but what floor are you putting down?

  6. Caoineag Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 09:31 pm 1236115878
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    The floor we are putting down is a textured laminate (boy that stuff has come a long way) that comes in 3-tile long pieces and that adhers only to itself. It looks like stone tile with grout lines. This isn't an expensive kitchen remodel, just replacing things that really are unbearable so that we like our kitchen for the next 10 or so years it takes to save up for a full redo. Once we start putting it in we will take photos of it. It should be a fairly quick install.

    Main reason I haven't done photos of countertop is that we still need to take the tiles off the walls around it, fix the wall (think lots of plaster and sanding) and repaint the whole kitchen. I will take photos of the floor when finished and then some more once the whole thing is finished.

  7. gamecock43 Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 pm 1236117941
    1236117941

    oh my goodness!! So much history! So interesting! Thank you for the pics- please include the finished product pictures.

  8. whitestripe Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 pm 1236118925
    1236118925

    great! can't wait for the finished photos. same reason i haven't posted many pics either, i want to do them when we've got it looking nice lol Smile

  9. scfr Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 01:20 am 1236129640
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    Ho ... ly ... COW!

  10. frugaltexan75 Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 02:00 am 1236132055
    1236132055

    That sure looks like a lot of work and time. I bet you and your DH will be so happy when the new floor is in. Smile

  11. Analise Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 05:19 am 1236143944
    1236143944

    Wow.. what a project. Can't wait to see the "after" pix.

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