Been looking around at what flooring options there are here, its pretty limited, but I'm sure I could order something from elsewhere.
I have a house with very damaged baltic floors. Some are worn so badly there are noticable dips in the floor (in doorways etc), others have no tongue and groove so they dip badly when you stand on them, and a few are termite damaged (house has been treated). Previous owner put masonite over the termite damaged ones, and a couple boards have been replaced with new pine boards. The baltic boards aren't polished or even sealed, and in one room they are painted black. Other than the odd broken board the floors seem pretty solid and level, no bouncing, squeaking or other weirdness (I jumped up and down in any corners that looked really bad and didn't go through, yay)
I'm planning to replace the kitchen floor (which has actual large holes in it) with the particleboard stuff that has a plastic tongue and groove down one side which looks like it will cost about $300 for that room, and lay vinyl as some of that room is cement, complete with ancient grey and red lino squares madly peeling off. Plan to replace the 3xbedroom and loungeroom floors with ordinary pine tongue-and-groove boards and coat them with polyurethane - I haven't priced this option yet, last time I did it was about 8 years ago and it was pretty cheap back then. We've been told to jack up any of the joists that aren't level with scraps of cement sheeting, and if any are too damaged to replace them with c-channel beams.
Are there any options besides just ripping the baltic out and replacing with pine that I don't know about, or any other considerations?
I have a house with very damaged baltic floors. Some are worn so badly there are noticable dips in the floor (in doorways etc), others have no tongue and groove so they dip badly when you stand on them, and a few are termite damaged (house has been treated). Previous owner put masonite over the termite damaged ones, and a couple boards have been replaced with new pine boards. The baltic boards aren't polished or even sealed, and in one room they are painted black. Other than the odd broken board the floors seem pretty solid and level, no bouncing, squeaking or other weirdness (I jumped up and down in any corners that looked really bad and didn't go through, yay)
I'm planning to replace the kitchen floor (which has actual large holes in it) with the particleboard stuff that has a plastic tongue and groove down one side which looks like it will cost about $300 for that room, and lay vinyl as some of that room is cement, complete with ancient grey and red lino squares madly peeling off. Plan to replace the 3xbedroom and loungeroom floors with ordinary pine tongue-and-groove boards and coat them with polyurethane - I haven't priced this option yet, last time I did it was about 8 years ago and it was pretty cheap back then. We've been told to jack up any of the joists that aren't level with scraps of cement sheeting, and if any are too damaged to replace them with c-channel beams.
Are there any options besides just ripping the baltic out and replacing with pine that I don't know about, or any other considerations?