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| Aunt T |
Posted - May 27 2008 : 06:52:11 AM
Looking through my Country Home and Country Living magazines I have noticed a lot of plain simple wooden plank floors that are painted. I am thinking of doing this myself, however not sure where to start. Any ideas? Sub floor, etc..... I can do this right?????!!!!
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| Aunt T |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 8:31:17 PM
Tracy! This is what I wanted to hear!!! So, #3 pine is not perfect correct? We are going to try to save money and use wood that is maybe a second or not quite perfect. I hope to start this project soon!
Thanks, Tricia
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| emsmommy5 |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 4:29:49 PM
We want to do plank flooring. It will be a while though.
I wanted to put my two cents in on the porch/deck paint issue. We remodeled last summer and we are living on subflooring in the addition. I thought I'd be a smarty and use deck paint so if stuff got spilled it wouldn't matter and I could just mop the floors. The painting person at Home Depot said to use the Deck Stain instead. Apparently it was supposed to be more durable.
Well, I have very mixed results. Granted the subfloor is strandboard (the cheap, glued, not plywood sheets and not the smushed sawdust kind) so it will splinter up when it is scratched with furniture or something that can catch the edge. I would have hoped it would have sealed the wood a little better than it did.
I am not particularly happy with it after living on it for six+ months. It doesn't clean as well as I had hoped and it just doesn't seem to be holding up that well.
Farmgirl #208
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| mommatracy |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 11:46:38 AM
Back in 1989 in our former 100 yr.old house we had someone put down #3pine (not perfect)boards over old vinyl and used square cut nails. I think he laid some kind of black paper(roll roofing?) over the vinyl before installing boards. Not sure because my brother laid this same floor and didn't put the paper down. The floors were beautiful. We stained them oak and put 2 coats polyurethene finish. When we sold the house in 06 everyone that viewed it really like the floor. Thought they were original because of the square cut nails. Our floors were not exactly level but it turned out fine. We did this to the kitchen,dining,hallway in back of house which was 7ftX21ft long. Super easy maintenance. I would do it again.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 09 2008 : 7:32:19 PM
It all depends on the stain, and if it goes too far down "in" the wood. My floors were ruined by a cat who was paralyzed, three owners before me. The acid in cat urine not only ate the varnish off, but also stained portions of the floor all the way through the planks (inches deep). I had visions of redoing them myself and called several hardwood specialists who all said, "you know, painting is nice for a cottage--otherwise, you're looking at about $10,000.00 to cut out these portions here, replace them, strip em, refinish and try to match the old varnish, etc..." So I chose carpet when I first moved in! Now, I think I'll take the Lowe's guy up on his suggestion of the high end porch paint with the built in primer. I don't WANT it to be perfect, afterall.
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| Aunt T |
Posted - Jun 09 2008 : 7:24:12 PM
Oh, sorry I forgot to tell you this is at least 150 year old farm house that has had linoleum laid down a couple of times. I can see just wood slats that are laid under that.
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| Aunt T |
Posted - Jun 09 2008 : 7:22:18 PM
We have a hole in the floor then it also dips down two inches. Yuck! I guess it is a real stumper!
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| MsCwick |
Posted - Jun 09 2008 : 11:01:52 AM
You can rent a drum sander from lowes for $35 a day. Start with the 30 grit paper and work through until you use 120 grit paper. If u get a good sander, you dont need to worry about it eating all the way through the floor as it has a mechanism to prevent it from sanding too deep. Around the edges, get a few sanding sponges and work through the grits from least to greatest(coursest to finest). If you have quarter round or shoe molding some people like to take this up and sand and then put it back down. if you dont have these and just have baseboard molding then you wouldnt have to sand so close with the sponge and your could put shoe molding down. if sponges are too rough on your hands, try an orbital sander. After sanding use a damp rag to wipe up all of the dust then let it dry.
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| abbasgurl |
Posted - Jun 07 2008 : 09:05:10 AM
Kate,
In our old farmhouse the floors were in terrible shape...We rented a big industrial sander and refinished them ourselves. They were gorgeous when finished! It really wasn't a bad job at all! The worst part of the job was waiting for the varish to dry, but there are much better products for finishing out there now. You might give refinishing a thought, especially if you plan to stay in this house.
Rhonda
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| farmgirlkate |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 05:50:31 AM
We have an older home with wood floors, but it's in really bad shape (the floors not the house). It was taken over and used by a frat group (think Animal House) and there are a couple of rooms I really want to paint the floors. One is a really high traffic area and I have been afraid it wouldn't stand up. Aside from porch paint does anyone have any suggestions? What do I need to do to the floor first to make it ready? anyone?
kate
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| Sarahpauline |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 5:07:39 PM
I am in exactly this situation. I have very crooked floors and was just at home depot where I was learning just what to do. You can do it! I know Im going to try.
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| abbasgurl |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 10:23:41 AM
The Mother Earth News has a great article on this. Here's the link: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Homes/2006-10-01/Install-a-Beautiful-Affordable-Wood-Floor.aspx
We're going to do our living room floors with pine boards finished with square cut nails. I do wonder about this affecting the resale value of our home-not that we are planning to go anywhere... I LOVE the rustic look, but not too many other people do.
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| MsCwick |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 08:28:26 AM
You could pull up the floor, and rework the floor joists. Is the flooring tongue and groove? It wouldnt be easy for me to type it to you, but I could explain and send you a drawing. DH and I do a lot of this kind of work!
As far as the floor painting goes, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use the right paint. MY husband and I have our own painting business, and we get so many calls to strip a painted floor and the paint it correctly. If you want to know details and options on paint let me know, because so many times people will paint their floor and it will look ok until a temperature change, and then it will start to lift and then it's just a mess! |
| cabingirl |
Posted - May 31 2008 : 3:27:01 PM
OH, I wish I could help you on that, but I don't know! The pine boards are about 3/4 inches thick (they are called 1 inch, but all lumber is thinner and shorter than the measurement they go by). I hope you find a solution~I'm sure someone else will know.
Mary
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| Aunt T |
Posted - May 28 2008 : 7:14:55 PM
You girls are great! Thank you for all the information, but I am sure I will have more questions as we go along. I just told my mom about the yellow pine floors and she thinks that sounds great. Now, the next question! They live in an 150 year old farm house with one floor has settled up to 2 inches. This floor will not settle any more because there is a brace under the house. However, how do we rebuild this part of the floor up to where it should be?
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| cabingirl |
Posted - May 28 2008 : 5:22:25 PM
We have yellow pine floors that we laid ourselves. It was a very easy job--they were already planed (bought them at the local hardware/lumber store) and we didn't sand them after they were down. I finished them with minwax stain (not poly) and they have worn very well. It has been almost 7 years now and I need to reapply some of the stain, but I don't mind the 'worn'or 'old' look either, so I'm not in too big of a hurry to get it done.
Yellow pine is tough and our floor will never have to be replaced. It is much cheaper than hardwood and I love the 'country' look it gives to the house.
Mary
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 28 2008 : 07:50:41 AM
I haven't laid plank, but I've laid other floors and, I'm thinking that laying another piece of linoleum over existing linoleum would work, but you have to remember your subfloor--subfloor + lineoleum + wood plank floor is going to be kindof "tall". Depending on how "thick" your planks are going to be, I'd consider removing the linoleum and also, checking the subfloor for any give or parts that need to be levelled. We had to do this in our back two rooms and it was worth the extra effort. We laid pergo flooring on top of a subfloor in that situation, and it was beneficial to make sure everything was level.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| Aunt T |
Posted - May 27 2008 : 12:39:27 PM
Thank you Jonni! Hey, have you ever laid your own wooden plank floor before by chance? If so, how do you do it over linoleum? Very clueless here but, I would love to lay down wood over my existing linoleum floor myself because of the cost. I cannot afford to hire someone. I will try the paint on my other wooden floors like you suggested! I like the "roughed up" look myself!
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 27 2008 : 08:12:30 AM
Tricia, I'm going to paint my hardwood in the living room this summer. It's the only room with carpet and I just hate it...but I also know that the hardwood underneath is in pretty crappy shape from the two prior owners before me. I talked with a guy at our local hardware store and he suggested this porch paint with a built in primer, and has a high gloss coat to it. It's very "heavy duty" and will stand up to just about anything (i.e., our 4 dogs) and if it gets roughed up, I'll even like it better!!!
I was just going to start with a basic solid color instead of design (originally, I was going to do a checkerboard) because of my time limitations. Either way, the paint I picked has an enormous amout of color choices so I'll be happy with whatever I choose.
Good luck!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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