At last, after two years, I've got round to sorting out some parquet for our hallway after it was extended.
I got some parquet - more than enough - for a song, off ebay, but unfortunately it wasn't packed (back-to-back) properly when it was dug up so many of the blocks have bitumen on the top surface after being thrown together in large bags, all sticking together.
Clearly the parquet will be sanded down after it is laid, but the question is, should I do something beforehand to remove as much of the offending bitumen as humanly possible? And if so, how do I best go about it?
I imagine I'll also need to get as much of the bitumen off the underside of the blocks, so there'll be a lot of manual labour for me before we get to lay it!
Michael