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The alt text you’re looking for: “They may technically have been softwoods at some point, but they aren’t now.”

I’m sure you’ve already dealt with it by now. But you can find antique cast iron floor grates, put a solid piece of iron under it, and bolt it to the floor. Takes care of the hole without affecting the original wood, but has a historic element to it too.

Okay!

Stunning

Beautiful

Lol

Looks like Brazilian cherry.

A familiar story. After my m-i-l died, we had to remove decades old carpet that had been urine soaked by all her dogs. Our realtor's crew used an ionizer before refinishing the hardwood floors underneath. What a difference it made!

Making America great... SMH.

It may not be hardwood, pine floors were common but higher maintenance...

Oh ya that. Minor detail 🫣

True! Just don’t burn it.

With that asteroid arriving, we may even get to party it out, like Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

But it's a sign of how little industry and governments have paid attention to the issue that they've only started thinking about it seriously in the past decade, rather than 20-30 years ago. It's also scary that most alternative battery chemistries to lithium are still at lab demo stage.

That's funny.

What?

Funny cabin in the woods had pine flooring but we removed 4 walls so, hickory hardwood now and we love it. Old pine had a lot of character and I saved it in other old houses I’ve owned and remodeled. Funky old houses are my thing I guess.

I found this in an album I titled “Dresden”.

Your persistence is admirable though. 😀

Bungalow owner that pulled up linoleum and voila ... Beautiful maple subfloor in kitchen and oak floors in the rest.

That’s so pretty, “it’s like a reward”.

One way to find out!

Sometimes people ask why their wood floorboards are painted white under the carpet and then we get to explain that 100 years ago, rugs that didn't go all the way were in vogue, people only finished the wood where it would be visible, and that's probably kilz sealing in cat pee.

Lifted floors in a house I used to live in and found a sprung beech dancefloor. Saved it thanks to an excellent joiner I knew, quite randomly because he rescued Siberian Huskies.

Later that day, Joan Crawford reaches a new level of frustration.

Most flooring seems to be composite made from bamboo these days.

Yeah, I gathered that. It’s not exactly rocket science. I was only stating my hatred of pine as a wood type.

Well, that was needlessly inflammatory. Nowhere in my post could you find an implication of people not using it.

Some of those pine floors are so much in demand that they are reclaiming them..

Lololol!

😅😅😜

Laying anything over hardwood floors should be considered a crime.

3/4" oak flooring is EASIER to install than tile! (And easier to cut to fit, too!) I laid this floor a few years ago. In the middle of the wall is a ventless natural gas fireplace. (To provide heat when the power goes out.)

There's Floor There You Commies!

Lol

Our kitchen floor is almost 2 inches higher than the dining room floor because of stacked up linoleum. The house is 101 this year. All hardwood floors.

Sometimes I wish I'd not quit facepalm so I could share this with science friends, them I remember Suckerburg!

I read lawyers, not layers and it still made sense.

Just sent to my geology major son. Thanks!

Superposition...it's the law.

We pulled up our carpet & found beautiful unscarred hardwood floors. They’d been hidden for years!

Don’t get a St Bernard. You have been warned.

Thank you

It's called the "floor lottery".

OOoooOOOOHHH After reading this thread, now I want to go remodel something. Or at least do the first part - tear down!!

Cheapest to paint, cover or seal it up. It’s the dust and bits you may inhale that can cause cancer when they lodge in the lungs.

So don't know what to do with ******* stuff.

The adhesive is often ACM as well. If it’s 9x9’s it’s all bad. That being said o can’t remember if I’ve ever had 12x12 vinyl tiles test hot

It’s squeaky and warped but sure

Spells to them or as I call them (in this case only), germs ; )

Or to power their steam engines in their new fancy trains.

Whatever it is, it will end up being glued down 😩

I feel seen.

It is hard, it was wood. I don't see a flaw in the logic.

"Original features"

Carbon AND ferrous? The value will skyrocket!

Not trump. Not musk. Curtis yarvin. Say his name. I’m not a bot, I need help spreading the word. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...

hoping it's shiplap 🤞🤞

Literally laughed out loud - 100% Nerd approved!

We're there even hardwood in the carboniferous?

😂🤣😂

For a moment i thought they would end up pink. I’ve been playing too much minecraft.

Sure, geography is where it's at. But damn does Geology Rock!

But how will that effect the resale value?

@bontesticle.bsky.social it's you...

It's hard, looking at geology diagrams, not to think there's a 14.3-meter layer of some sort of brickwork down there, probably cinder blocks.

Lol whoever rips out the floor in my house next is going to find similar art

😆

😂

We copied a bunch of 100 bills in color (yes I know it’s a federal crime) and put them in a bag in a wall cavity. My apprentice said by the time they find this it probably won’t be enough to take the rest of the day off work 🤣

I love you. That’s beautiful. I might even cry a little. Honestly, I think remodeling companies (or even new construction) should include something like that in every job—at least it would be a fun surprise over questionable wiring or cabinet doors that fall off.

That is a magnificent joke.

And those people, primitive as they were, really knew how to cut a rug.

Years ago, my sister-in-law convinced us to pull up some of the old kitchen linoleum, thinking we would find lovely hardwood below. The only thing we found was some awful, dirty plywood.

Alright no but hear me out… underground bunker/home. Genuinely natural hardwood floors polished and just built out of the layers. Idk how how that deep that is or if even viable. But in theory sounds awesome visually

Thankfully the bottom layer was just stapled down in the kitchen. They did glue it in a different room though and yeah it's a pain to get up.

when you dig too greedily and too deep

I had a floor like that once. The whole thing was covered in mastic that looked like tar. My brilliant floor made it look beautiful.

Did you hate the end results or something?

i never joke about botany

Home planet renovations leaving you petrified?

I prefer it. I would rather have rugs than carpet.

And you can dig it up, burn it and F the planet.