I have many, many flooring and other questions, but I will just start with one. We have an old house built in 1954. It has hardwood flooring in most rooms, and had various types of linoleum applied to various layers of plywood in the kitchen. We have ripped out all the plywood and linoleum in the kitchen, and we are down to the subfloor. (YaY!) The whole house has a bad cat smell, and we are trying to find ways to heal it of that. We tore out the kitchen floor because there was extensive odor in that. It has helped, but we need help in the other rooms...
I am getting off topic. Under all that plywood and lino, on top of the subfloor was tar paper. We don't know what it was for, or whether we need to re-apply it, or if we should use something else. Also, we do not know what kind of floor we are going to put in. There are so many options and we are confused. Anyway, our current objective is to rid that subfloor of the cat smell if at all possible. Our plan is to sand it...and then we don't know what to do after that.
Can anyone give me some direction and advice about that tar paper? I have a feeling it is also under our hardwood in the other rooms...
Is tar paper a bad thing?
TIA,
Rosebud
I am getting off topic. Under all that plywood and lino, on top of the subfloor was tar paper. We don't know what it was for, or whether we need to re-apply it, or if we should use something else. Also, we do not know what kind of floor we are going to put in. There are so many options and we are confused. Anyway, our current objective is to rid that subfloor of the cat smell if at all possible. Our plan is to sand it...and then we don't know what to do after that.
Can anyone give me some direction and advice about that tar paper? I have a feeling it is also under our hardwood in the other rooms...
Is tar paper a bad thing?
TIA,
Rosebud