{"id":876,"date":"2006-08-03T23:21:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T03:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2009-11-27T16:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T20:48:27","slug":"layout-room-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Layout room reno"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, eventually a layout room…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I have been away for the last several weeks, first with the NMRA Train Show in Philadelphia, and more recently with the new house in Burford. I have come home for a few days to catch up on some pressing CAD work, and wash the shorts….<\/p>\n

We will be building a shop on the property, and in the mean time we are renovating a “wing” on the house to work out of for the next while. Once the new outbuilding is complete, this space will become a main floor layout room off of the dining room, which I am looking forward to!<\/p>\n

Here is a shot of the space when we first looked at the house….<\/p>\n

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It will be a bit cramped for a while, but we are used to that. The payoff will be worth it though….<\/p>\n

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A few weeks back we got started on the demo. Ron and Russ were out for an evening to “evaluate” the situation.<\/p>\n

Here they are “evaluating”. Ron is the one holding up the shovel.<\/p>\n

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We pulled out the carpeting earlier, which was as much fun as a full rectal examination. 10 years of the dogs best were well absorbed in the fibres and the underpad. They are resting comfortably at the Biggars Lane landfill.<\/p>\n

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We scraped up a bit of the stylish floor tiles to see what lay beneath.<\/p>\n

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What lay beneath was 6 layers of flooring before we struck bottom. It was interesting to see the various styles over the years. About one layer was added every 15 years or so.<\/p>\n

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Buried deep in the floor layers was some old newspapers. These provided some interesting reading, and a welcome delay in the inevitable labour of floor removage.<\/p>\n

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The date on the paper is January 7, 1948.<\/p>\n

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There was quite a collection of these. We saved what we could.<\/p>\n

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With the exploration out of the way the demolition of the floor began in earnest. The next day Ron and I sweated it out and pulled up all the old flooring. To call this work is an understatement. There were at least 117,000 nails in this floor, and the pry bars hit each and every one of them!<\/p>\n

This old flooring is resting with the carpeting at the Biggars Lane landfill.<\/p>\n

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Jumping ahead a week, and 20,000 calories, the room is emptied of its various walls, cabinets and flooring scrap. Removing the old cabinets was quite a task. These were fastened with every conceivable type of fastener produced. I could date the renos (or attempts at renos) by the types of fasteners I found. Screws meant a more recent addition. When I finally got down to square nails I knew I was almost at the bottom of the task. The old cabinets and ceiling are resting with the floors and the carpets at the Biggars Lane landfill.<\/p>\n

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Might as well….<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Might as well” has cost more people more money over the years. Since I was in the middle of this simple upgrade, I “might as well” do something with the nice pine plank flooring that was found under all those layers of flooring.<\/p>\n

We debated on what to do with the floor. Initially we figured we would simply cover it up with some sheathing until the shop was complete and I would fix it up then. Not wanting to waste money on all that sheathing, that would just have to be pulled up, and we had had enough of that nonsense, we thought about simply painting it.<\/p>\n

I really didn’t want to do that, as it would only have to be removed later. So we decided we “might as well” refinish it now.<\/p>\n

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Calling the flooring that we found “nice” was a bit of an optimistic statement. There was quite a combination of interesting finishes. Some of completely unfinished wood floor, covered in several decades of dirt, various sections of painted floor, some with only a single coat of paint, others with dozens of coats of paint, a few “mystery materials” that resembled asbestos, some large black oil stains and a few holes.<\/p>\n

Some of the areas were so worn from foot traffic that almost half of the wood plank was worn away. We might have to replace these sections.<\/p>\n

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We rented all the necessary torture devices that Home Depot has to offer for floor refinishing. A few passes over the painted sections and it quickly became obvious that paint can not be sanded from a floor. It instantly clogs up the $10 sanding drums that the kind man at Home Depot so thoughtfully gave us 60 of. I now see why he did that…<\/p>\n

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We decided to get some paint stripper and remove the paint first, and then sand the floor. This took and additional day, but was worth it as it did make sanding the floors much easier. The bucket contains a collection of floor paintings from the last 100 years.<\/p>\n

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With the floor goop off, I could begin sanding in earnest. <\/p>\n

I sanded….<\/p>\n

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and sanded….<\/p>\n

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