u/jleestone

For me it was the time I went to refinish the kitchen floor in my vacation house. I had a week and a plan. I had refinished the hardwood floor in the living room the year before. The plan was the same: pull up the old linoleum, sand and sand and sand some more, polyurethane. When I pulled up the linoleum, the floor boards in front of the sink came up with it. Including the subfloor in spots. I could see into the basement. Time for Plan B. My cousin and I patched the floor with some poplar cants he had milled up and I hired a local flooring place to put in linoleum (kind of a nice industrial grade with a non-slip finish). It was an upgrade, but not the patinaed maple floor I'd wanted.