My boyfriend and I recently purchased a house built in 1918 that actually used to be a school. Our goal is to eventually refinish all the old hardwood floors in this house. We have kind of hit a stump in our living room though. Underneath layers (literally) of laminate we found tar paper that has been almost melted and set into the hardwood floor. We have been scraping it, but only so much will come up. We recently tried a heat gun, stripper, and mineral spirits, all of which the hardware store recommended. Nothing has worked though. It all just gums up the tar paper and makes it soak into the floor worse.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get this crud up??? It sucks that we are probably just going to have to scrape it all off and pay a ton to sand the rest of it. Please help!!
Thanks!
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get this crud up??? It sucks that we are probably just going to have to scrape it all off and pay a ton to sand the rest of it. Please help!!
Thanks!


