Need some feedback as to whether you guys think this is possible. After taking up ceramic tile, glass-krete, and some rotten plywood, and then t&g flooring, I’m down to the original subfloor, which are just long and thich planks of wood nailed to the joists. The tops of them are kind of ugly but when I flipped them over it looks like really nice reddish pine that really is nice after i put some polyurethane on it. I would like to use this floor as the finish floor for a room, but it’s extremely rough, and I don’t want to sand it alot because i don’t want to lose the color. Is actually using this stuff wishful thinking on my part?
-Michael
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You apparantly have some nioce older wood there. I locve pine too, especially with its old patina. How rough it is and what your tastes are depends on you. I visited a job where old chestnuut planks from a barn were being laid as flooring and they were quite rough - I kidded the lead carpenter - "Hey, When are you going to lay the finished flooring here in this room"
But the colour was nice and it fiot the rest of the decor in the place.
We scraped sopme old doors in one house prepping for paint and the interior designedr came in to pick colours and she went ga-ga over them, just the way they were, exclaiming something like, "Can't you just FEEL the VIBEs coming off these doors" I guess I'm not a vibe guy. They looked to me like they still needed painting...
If your plank flooring is smooth enough with finish on that it doesn't snag the socks or give your feet splinters, the rest is a matter of taste. But something you could try is to scrape or sand a sample and use Waterlox oil on it to see if enough of the patina is restored.
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