Is of varying quality and vintage. There are a few tongue-and-groove thick plank floors with really wide gaps, varnished I guess, how do I take care of these? Then there is a relatively newly laid pine floor that is high-gloss lacquered. We'll see what we do about it eventually, for now, it stays as is (we bought the cottage this spring). In the hallway, there's an old dirty wooden floor, with a nailed (!) linoleum mat on it, which will go out this weekend! And the kitchen; a plastic mat with a wooden floor underneath. In the kitchen, there's also, under the plastic mat, a hatch down to a root cellar that can't be accessed without removing the plastic mat. The cottage was built in 1909 on a crawlspace foundation.
To the point: Is it possible to create a scrubbed floor from the dirty hallway floor? And, the glue with which the plastic mat is attached, how do I remove it to make a scrubbed floor in the kitchen? There probably was one, considering the cellar hatch. And the gaps in the plank floors, do you recommend that we caulk the floors, or lift the planks to "push" them together and then splice at one wall?
