i'm guessing that a problem could be that the boards will shrink and create drafty gaps so i think my old builder dad would have laid the boards upside down, without nails to settle to the temperature and moisture in the room while he did other jobs for a week or two and then turned over the boards and, using a solid timber length to push the boards tight as possible before nailing and he would have probably appreciated the idea of adding some under floor insulation as well

Hi there, I am laying Baltic Pine flooring onto hardwood joists that are 100 plus years old and had 2 questions I was looking for some help on. - Do you use some sort of adhesive on joists ? - How would you secret fix to the joists ? I would prefer not to top nail and am planning to use joist clamps and to secret nail/screw, and was wondering does anyone recommend a screw to use to go through the tongue to fix to the hardwood joist ? Thank you

Good work on whoever did the butt join. The best way to get a match is to strip the old boards and refinish the lot. The finish on the old boards would have yellowed and aged and it will be difficult to match.

Hi peeps, Apologies that i've been offline over the past few days. Suffice to day that i'm incredibly grateful for your contributions. If you will indulge me for one second (or minute), i never thought that i would get this house. I separated a few years ago and was on the lookout for a small renovation project. I figured out what i wanted to spend on a reno, or what i wanted to spend on a completed house. I also identified an area that i wanted to move to. During what felt like a long process, this house came up and i fell in love with it instantly, although being realistic i figured that it would be waaaay out of my price range (mainly due to size and location). But i attended two open houses and it was even better in person than in the pictures. I mentioned earlier about how i have a basement and when seeing it in person, my inner child came out and all i could think of was what it must have been like growing up in the house. So the auction came around and so i decided that i wanted to attend because i wanted to see how much it would be sold for. Whilst i was going through the pre-approval process, i hadn't quite dotted the 'i's' and crossed the 't's'. Having said that, my friends still convinced me to register! :-) Now i had no intention of bidding, but to my shock the house got passed in. And even after a vendor bid it got passed in for a value that was below my budget (albeit my budget for a completed house!). From speaking with the agent, i put in an offer subject to finance the following day and after a little bit of negotiation i secured it. Whilst acknowledging that buying a house is a huge investment, i really believe that i got the house for 150-200k less than it should have gone for. I guess that i was in the right place at the right time because i don't think that there were any other serious buyers at the time. Of course that means that i need to save (and borrow more) to do the renovations. But i love the house. Again, it's way to big for me so i'm not going to neccessarily be here forever. But it's very cool and in renovating i just want to do it justice :-)