Do Old Hard Wood Floors 50 Years Ago Have Tongues

Greetings we bought an 1810 house in eastern ohio that has the original wood floors.

Do old hard wood floors 50 years ago have tongues. The wear layer is the area above the tongue and groove. I have a rather large pile that came with the house. Unfortunately past home owners have painted some floors and stained others a honey color and carowted over others. Why most folk in this city of toronto chose the 3 8 strip saving about 80 dollars in the average house i have no idea.

A poor choice of hardwood by one generation is then foisted on the next. In a typical hardwood flooring installation the tongues of the boards must all face in the same direction. How to reverse a tongue groove wood floor. It was removed by my brother in law a contractor from a job site and all the staples have been removed.

At the same time mass produced 3 8 1 2 3 4 strip hardwood flooring was cheaply available at 10 15 and 20 cents per square foot respectivly. There have been different thicknesses of hardwood flooring milled over the years and their wear layers are different. They are quater sawn square edge. After nailing the tongues of one course.

Most of it is about 5 inch wide boards some 2 1 2. One key in determining how many times the floor has been refinished would be to look at the wear layer that is left on the flooring itself. My question is related to the wide boards do not have tongue and groove milled into the. But the victorian and craftsman revivals of the late 20th century saw a renewed interest in hardwood flooring along with the use of reclaimed lumber to replicate early floors.