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Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - chopper - 04-10-2010
Always been sort of curious what is under the indoor-outdoor carpet on the porch of a 1920s Bungalow we own. Pulled up a corner today, found light blue latex paint. Grabbed some paint stripper at Ace and laid, eventually, two coats down in a corner. Scraped it up and found some really nice seemingly maple or oak flooring, probably original. Nice grain, etc.
The porch is quite large and this would be a huge huge job if I had to do it all on my knees. Plus the stripper seems to be about the same consistency and corrosiveness of napalm.
I wonder what a contractor would get to strip, sand and refinish it.
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - Black - 04-10-2010
The light blue color is in some ways more "authentic" to the original period than restored bare wood. Are you sure it's worth the effort?
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - pRICE cUBE - 04-10-2010
I personally don't mess with another guy's wood.
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - mstudio - 04-10-2010
Is this an enclosed or open porch? If open, it was probably painted originally. I also doubt oak or even maple would have been used on an exterior porch floor. If it's an enclosed porch, probably would not have been painted originally.
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - TheTominator - 04-10-2010
pRICE cUBE wrote:
I personally don't mess with another guy's wood.
Yeah, it would be wise to let the Ace stripper do all the work.
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - chopper - 04-10-2010
The wood has stain on it, it matches the stain on the maple floor in the kitchen.
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - Paul F. - 04-10-2010
I would certainly investigate a professional floor refinishing contractor.
They have power tools suitable for stripping the floor, while vacuuming up the dust.
I'm a fan of do-it-yourself, but that's a LOT of work if it's any kind of square footage at all.
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - AlphaDog - 04-10-2010
I'd do a bit more research based on Black's suggestion. If I'm not mistaken, he's done quite a bit of study on homes built in that era. Plus, I, too, think it was more likely that the porch floor had been painted. Not only do I think it would be more consistent with the era, paint probably was far superior as a way of protecting wood than anything else available 90 years ago. My grandparents built a house with a huge front porch around 1917, and it was definitely painted when new. Still is.
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - Jack D. - 04-11-2010
>Pulled up a corner today, found light blue latex paint.
If it's a 1920's bungalow and it had latex paint on it, it's not the original finish.
According to Paint History:
"Styrene-Butadiene synthetic rubber latex was developed as the Mutual Recipe in the USA (75% butadiene, 25% styrene with a rosin soap and a little mercaptan) since isoprene did not give a useful material. Production started in 1943. The first all-acrylic latex paint was introduced commercially in 1953."
Re: Someone Painted the Wood Floor On My Porch - marksomebodyelse - 04-11-2010
Don't forget the added lead in the paint.