![]() ![]() While you could just buy a deck of cards for a buck and play these games on your coffee table, Hardwood Solitaire negates the annoying set-up and cleanup of real life cards. Instructions for each are also included, with animated demos to boot. It would not at all surprise me to find that it worked well as a natural solvent.Īnd yes, carpets were considered a sign of progress, or luxury, whereas wood was seen as primitive, and less civilised or cultivated, for much of the twentieth century.Each game includes a rating for length, amount of luck involved, and difficulty. Indeed, a bottle of Olbas Oil travels with me on flights, and I find it invaluable, especially on long flights. I use eucalyptus (in Olbas Oil) for my (endless) sinus trouble when I am at home in wet, sudden, dismal, north west Europe, and I find it works wonders. Let us just say that their HQ was uninhabitable for a few yard while they rendered it safe, at no small cost. The original HQ of the EU in Brussels - the Berlaymont building - had to be abandoned for years - after it was realised that the bountiful quantity of asbestos used in the original building materials in the 1950s posed a serious health hazard to the entire EU bureaucracy by the mid 1990s. ![]() And you will have a wonderful, risk, red, wooden floor to celebrate and enjoy when this process has come to a (doubtless, longed for) end.Īsbestos was very popular mid twentieth century - it was thought of as safe, very robust, and fire resistant. Well, I think that the long way of doing things - while a lot more (mind-numbingly) tedious, may well rank as a lot safer in the long run. That little bit I've done? That's what took 4 hours. So is there an easy way to remove old tar like that without warping or damaging the floor itself, or am I stuck to doing things the hard way.įor reference, this is what it looks like. It took me about 4 hours to get 1/6ths of the way through it. ![]() ![]() I have to very patiently work it out to remove it, and it takes forever. This stuff? It makes it a little softer, but it's still firmly attached to the wood underneath. Now if it were any type of relatively modern adhesive, I could soak it down with some remover, and scrape it up in a second. It's black, gummy, and takes forever to chisel out. Now my question involves the crap they used to seal the linoleum to the floor, which I'm pretty sure is a kind of tar. People apparently didn't have any taste in the 50's. Why would anyone cover up real, rich red hardwood with a cheap fake replacement is beyond me. It needs to be sanded, stained, and polished, but it's actual hardwood floor. One of the things that surprised me is that when I peeled back a bit of the ugly, faux wood checkerboard linoleum, there was actual, honest to god hardwood floor underneath it. It's a part of the house I've never done anything with, and I figured it was time to bring it up to spec. This year, I decided to do something with the ugly ass, cracked and bumpy linoleum floor in my center room hallway. Since yee olde homestead is about 85 years old, there's always plenty to do. About once a year, usually around winter, I'll up and decide to do some repair and/or light remodeling around the house. ![]()
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