Heart pine floors need some love. Need DIY suggestions.
Leah Harvey
3 years ago
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Comments (7)We recently installed some reclaimed heart pine. There were some bolt holes, like 3/4" diameter, in addition to smaller holes. We either culled out the worst holes or patched them with wood plugs or dutchmen. It was okay because the original flooring had been taken up, re-milled, and had scads of nail holes and other damage from removal. The new flooring (with bolt holes, supposedly from large timbers used in warehouses or factories) supplemented the original stuff to make up the shortfall, which was almost 180 square feet. The floors ended up with tons of character, and look truly at home in the 1817 rooms. Your outcome depends on the skill of your carpenter.The repairs can be effected on the workbench before the material is installed, as sometimes that is the more efficient method. Dutchmen (rectangular patches) can be accomplished by routing out a recess, which need not be the full thickness of the board; 3/8 is fine. The router is guided by wooden straightedges, and the dutchmen is cut to the exact length and hand-planed in width until it fits perfectly. If the grain is chosen properly, it can blend in very nicely. Wood repairs only, not epoxy please. Casey...See Moresome of my DR heart pine furniture..if you haven't seen it before
Comments (35)Trailrunner, your home is just so beautiful and it seems to be full of who you are as a person. I don't know your story but I too have one of my own. The sentence that began "All any of us can do" really spoke to me today and I don't even know what words I can say to thank you for them. I don't mean for this to be an OT not by any means, but I try to surround myself with things that are attractive to me. The beauty might be in the character of your unupholstered chair or the unknown history of memazz's bowling pins or a painting that tells a story to me. My family doesn't understand the importance decorating has in my life, and luckily doesn't really have any influence on what I do - I couldn't imagine that battle. For me, it is the desire to surround myself with things that I find beautiful and items that evoke happy memories that dictates what I do. My rooms would not be in any magazine and pale in comparison to rooms I have seen in this blog (like your dining room) but adding something or altering a room bringing it closer to being "me" is what I strive for. Sitting in a chair in my LR, with my coffee, watching the cat as she sleeps next to "my" chair - no one else likes the color but I think it is "gorgeous" - with the colors of the vase (which I picked out just knowing that it would cast the most magnificent shadow) in the window beginning to creep upon her fur is more beautiful than any diamond I could own. So again, without meaning for this to be OT - I tend to look at people's rooms as more than what is "correct" as to how much of their personality is there. So many of your pieces from the stories you have told seem to tell some of the stories of your life. Do you like I, place what may be to most people, a greater desire to surround yourself with things that elicit positive thoughts. I find that not many people understand that it is more than just accumulating or matching "things". How much does ingesting your personality matter when you are designing a room?...See MoreOld-Growth Heart pine paneling -- reused as flooring?
Comments (20)My contractor and I met today on how to keep the paneling "as is" and brighten the room. He suggested a bay window on the southeast wall. There is an open doorway to the sunroom on one side of the fireplace. There's a window on the other side, also to the sunroom, so he's going to make that an open doorway to balance the wall and provide more light. We'll reuse the removed window in the new addition on the back of the house. I'm going to try Soy-Gel to remove the black paint from the bricks (last owner did this) on the fireplace and if it works, that should help. If I can't remove the black paint, we'll tile over it. We're both excited because it looks like the downstairs powder room and upstairs bath have oak flooring beneath the vinyl. We went into the basement and it looks like the sunroom floor, beneath the 70s parquet, is porch wood. My contractor is going to have wood grilles made to add to the already replaced windows in the sunroom so that they more closely resemble the original windows. He gave me the name of a man who can restore/refinish original tubs and sinks for me, too. I'll head back to the architectural salvage warehouse to see if I can find a kitchen sink and a clawfoot tub for my downstairs master addition. The upstairs tub will be restored. We're going to restore the old garage (10'x18') to be my garden shed and add a drive-through porte cochere off the side of the house, using a flat roof with balustrade on top, to match the era of the house. That should solve my need for covered parking. I'm very excited after the meeting....See Morefixing uneven stain on old heart pine floors
Comments (4)Gel stain is not a panacea for imperfect sanding. In addition it's not a good idea to leave excess stain on the surface. I would hand scrape and sand an area where the finish wasn't completely removed and see if another application of stain on that spot made it blend. Start with one in the lower left of your picture. It might be necessary to tape off individual boards or groups of boards when re-staining. Another option would be to apply a coat of poly then do a glaze/faux finish touch up on top of the poly....See MoreLeah Harvey
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