tea break and lino layers

just having a break from cleaning kitchen. sun's shining now.

please imagine lino for yourself. i am not going to put up a pic of lino here.

the trouble with ripping up the lino is the discovery of several more layers underneath. obviously, even older.

plus who ever laid these layers - the Victorians probably - had not yet discovered 'wall to wall' anything.

except floor boards luckily.

so what we have here is a large square - the middle of the room - of layered, broken at the edges, old lino which i keep tripping up on which rips bits off.

and so on - i am sure you get the idea.

what i also have now are floorboards, some of which are clearly a bit rotten, and some holes where the floor board seems to have disintegrated, and someone has covered it over with card - yes - card. so yet another good trip to look forward to.

the back area of the room was/is lino-tiled, and of course the original flood (the start of all this) has meant lots of them have come unstuck and curled up at the edges, so i have ripped them out. this seems to have left oblongs of board nailed to the floor. hmmm. i wonder if they are covering up more holes. do i want to know?

conundrum. i need to try to even up the floor somehow if i am going to lay anything on it, and to avoid ghastly tripping-up accidents.

do i find stuff to put down to fit in, making it more even, or do i just rip everything up and hope for the best? dread to think what i might find.

each improvement i do to the flat goes to putting up my rent and putting up the value of the landlord's property.

:-)

ho-hum. another cup of tea.