Hello wood, meet your long lost friend sunlight!

After painstakinly ripping off the ugly ass plastic carpet using a hot air torch thingy, scraper, knife and brute force, a beautiful original wood floor was revealed, painted with the same colour we have found in two of the bedrooms so far.

Sadly it’s ruined with an insane amount of carpet glue on every inch AND in every single crack between the planks. We had to use a litre of paint remover and hours and hours of scraping to get the majority of the glue and paint off the surface. That took us another long afternoon.

On day three I was working on this alone all day, scraping off all the thich ass glue and the old linen insulation between the planks. I went through every inch digging with the knife and then vacuuming the loose grime. I am going to re-insulate the cracks with linen fibre after the floors have been sanded. My right hand is so sore but I think I’m doing pretty fucking good so far.

It’s truly a miracle I didn’t stab myself on accident, these bare limbs were asking for it.

At the end of the day I washed the floor with vinegar and water to try and get off and neutralise the paint remover residue. This last image is pre wash so it still looks wet and glooby from all that junk, I’ll edit this post tomorrow morning with another photo of the floor when it’s gotten some time to dry.

Edit: here’s a closeup of the ”clean” floor

And now we wait for the floor to dry properly, see if we need to replace the planks next to the outer door and add support, and then we can do a shit ton of sanding. I really want to get to the next stage already!