Urban Archaeology

The terrible state of our living and dining room floors has prompted many theories; our favorite is that the surface shrouded in white paint is the subfloor. That theory is why we decided to lay new floors rather than sand and refinish the (in our minds) non-existent flooring.

We were wrong. There is fir flooring laid atop the subfloor, just like we have upstairs. It is sanding down beautifully except for the awful patch in the back of the dining room. With county records and some sleuthing, we learned that the back 4' of the room was originally a porch. When the porch was enclosed, the floor was patched with 2x6s and carpet was laid over the whole mess. The area left of the vertical crack in the floor is patched, the area to the right is fir.



Since fir is damaged so easily and the rest of the downstairs has white oak laid on fir laid on the subfloor, we're still going to have oak laid in the living and dining rooms. The sanding is being done to repair damaged areas and make the surface flat.

Anticlimactic, huh?