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For older members (gen x'ers and boomers) why did you hate hard wood floor?

aristomaniac said:
We rehab houses. In almost every single case with an older house, we have found thick solid wood flooring covered up by either carpet or linoleum. It's been explained to us that there was a period when hard wood floor went out of style and people preferred putting carpet and cheap linoleum over these expensive thick lushes hardwood. Solid oak I might add.

Um, why? What was the logic behind covering up these great floors with cheap stuff?
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It was because, post war, being able to afford carpet or linoleum was a sign of prosperity
 
I did a thread a few years ago about how to get blood stains out of hardwood floors, turns out you had to use more blood to break it down.
 
That's very probably, Cormac. Art restorers tell us that the most effective solvent they use is saliva.

It's also true of inorganic compounds. For example, one way to remove permanent marker on hard surfaces is to rub fresh marker on it and rub it off while the volatiles are still soft.
 
Hard wood floors scratched and showed dust and were colder. Wall to wall carpeting was the in thing, although kitchens and baths had linoleum or possibly tile so they could handle water and frequent washing. Originally before the '60's they used hard wood floors under the carpeting, but after the 60's they started to use plywood under the carpeting.
 
aristomaniac said:
Anyone who has ever watched hgtv has also seen this pattern. Nice thick solid oak flooring covered up by cheap linoleum or carpet.
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On HGTV if the floors are carpeted the women (usually) want hardwood floors.
In they have hardwood floors men seem to want carpet.
I wouldn't care if my house had mahogany floors......I want carpeted floors.
 
Rickrock said:
Hard wood floors scratched and showed dust.
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This...not that there was a hate but true hardwood floors were a PITA to keep up and looking good and the refurb technology was a LOT more labor intensive back in the day. Just easer to throw a nice new fresh floor over in most cases.
 
Yooper said:
I helped refinish a floor (entire 1000 square foot house) in the neighborhood some years back. Three 10-hour days of sanding, $500 in sandpaper because the wax just melted onto the paper. I ached for days after that job. Not for the faint-hearted.
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I can still remember how the lemon scented wax smelled. As kids we used to use the hall as sort of slip and slide. All jokes aside what you describe is why I haven't tried to refinish these floors. I've just left them the way they are. They are red oak and to my eye still look pretty good.
 
I'm thinking my next place will have tiles or a polished concrete floor - easier to clean -with maybe the odd rug that can be thrown into the machine
 
Nealm1 said:
I'm thinking my next place will have tiles or a polished concrete floor - easier to clean -with maybe the odd rug that can be thrown into the machine
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I've been thinking about pulling up the carpets and tiling the floors with the wood look plank tiles. I want to price out underlaying it with heaters. Just enough to warm the floors and not heat the house.
 
For the same reason everyone has to own stainless steel appliances now.
 
I like hardwood floors in the main part of the house (kitchen, family room, dining room). Don't think I'd want it in a bedroom though.

But if it was my own place, I'd honestly be fine with just painting the plywood subfloor & leave it at that
Not exactly pretty, but cheap, and very minimal maintenance.
 
In 18th and 19th century Britain and America floors were often (even in the grandest houses) a modest softwood, and were meant to be covered almost entirely or entirely by carpet of one sort or another, as well as matting and painted canvas.

A few years ago I worked for a rich, cultivated English couple with a superb collection of period Georgian and Regency furniture. They bought an exceptional Georgian Revival house in Bel-Air, and hired me to add a library and additional bedrooms and baths. They asked for heated marble floors in the baths and hardwood in the library and bedrooms, with the intent of installing wall-to-wall Axminister carpeting atop the hardwood. I had the impression from them that in Great Britain, with its notoriously inclement weather, the greatest comfort and luxury was achieved with a fine wall-to-wall carpet.
 
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Check out these images of the interior of Boscobel, a Federal period house, now superbly re-located on the Hudson River, showing interiors with carpeting, floor cloths and matting:

https://boscobel.org/explore/the-house/

Well worth visiting.
 
People may dislike hardwood floor for reasons of their own choosing, but let us remember that NO symphony hall, or ballet hall (or older jazz halls) or even dance floor until 1982, had a floor that was NOT made of hardwood for the resonance of sound.

As for dancing - ANY kind: club, ballroom, or any type of dance, a hardwood floor is THE floor to dance upon. Especially if the wood is suspended. You think a ballerina would dance on MDF, as the majority of Millennials are accustomed to?

I'm surprised people are so unacquainted with what it feels like to walk on real wood on a daily basis. Don't gyms still have hardwood floors? Basketball courts certainly do. That has never changed it
 
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