The house I grew up in was built by my grandfather, my dad, and his
brothers in the late 1930s. They weren't finished carpenters, but they
cut the boards and built a house. The house was serviceable, but not a great house, lots
of things could have been done better, I suppose. My nephew and brother took the
house down a couple of years ago, keeping a lot of the pieces of it for
re-use. My nephew then built the house for their family on the same site.
One of the things that they have a LOT of is the oak flooring that was
in the house. It is not of the current "style":
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| the boards are narrow
(from about 2" to about 3"), |
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| and a flooring guy told my nephew it wasn't
worth reusing as it was not thick enough (it is 3/4"). |
It is possible that
the flooring guy just did not want to mess with it; regardless, they put down new.
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| The
board lengths range 10'-14'. |
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| The pictures
show just some of it, there are probably about 1600 sq ft of it. |
My brother is contemplating using it in various building projects (we're
about to put a roof on a storage container) or using it for heating the house (burn it up),
but... it seems to us that there would be some use for it. I have had people recommend that we look at projects in Pinterest... but... we're just not "in" to that...
Does anyone know of a use for this flooring? If we were going to sell it, say on Craigslist, any ideas about pricing?
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