dpb wrote:
On 5/30/2012 4:43 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
dpb wrote:


As CW notes I've also spent a lot of time in refurbishing pre- and
postbellum houses in Lynchburg, VA, that were built from the early
1800s to mid- to late 1880s.

Virtually every one of them had wide pine flooring that was
virtually the same as any conventional flooring today excepting for
the width.

They weren't tongue and grove though - were they? Around these
parts, most of the old stuff was just butted along the edges and the
ends.
They were laid to be close-joined and flat and were finished

Help me out here... close-joined? I think I can figure out what you
mean but I'd prefer to really understand that term.
....

They were laid w/ no gap and generally hand-planed in the oldest (SYP
almost always; some northern white pine but not often).


That's what I figured you meant. That's how my floors are laid, but there
are gaps now...

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-Mike-