Gentlemen,
After drilling out 200 nail heads on my about to be refinished hardwood floor in my living room and dining room, I discovered my bathroom has the same floor.
I had scheduled a tile installer to install some tiles in the bath until I saw the hardwood. It seems like a crime to screw cement board over this floor (not to mention some problems the tile being higher than the other rooms).
Can anyone give me some advice about hardwood in baths? It’s been here 80 years, but I’m not sure. Of course, the tile guy is scheduled for Monday, so I should probably decide by tomorrow.
Thanks! (I’ll post some pics when the floor’s finished)
Patrick
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Depends a lot on things like species of wood, finish etc. I've seen a number of them and done a couple myself. They usually don't stand up terribly well from the perspective of warping and stains from years of peeing by moonlight.
Why don't you just cut the flooring along the door threshold, and rip itall out?
You'll keep all the floor heights closer, and you won't be burying solid wood under the cement board where problems may occur.
A bathroom floor should rip up pretty quick; a couple of hours to gut and cleanup if nothing goes wrong.
instead og drilling why not use a drift punch...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
as soon as you can sawzall the nail at the HW / subfloor...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
My bias would be to leave it in if it's been there for 80 years. If you're taking up the toilet, I would get one of those cultured marble toilet slabs to put it on, that would contain any small toilet leakage. Someone on here has one, and I made my own out of a slab of granite.
I'd go crazy with gloss polyurethane though, at least 4 coats.
zak
"so it goes"