I looked at a house for sale the other day, and most of the rooms had hardwood floors, but more than half of the floors were black, sort of striped, with wood color and maybe grain in adjacent stripes.
I think the finish was damaged by the padding or the backiing of whatever wall-to-wall carpet they had had.
Do you know anything about this, what padding would do this and what wouldn't?
A friend told me they took the carpet off of the floors in the house they bought, at least 30 years old, and the hardwood floors were nice underneath. What's the difference
----------- The house also had a washer and dryer installed in the pretty large room next to the kitchen. But in the basement was an earlier place for the machines. It's likely the owners got too old to go downstairs. Half of the house, the half with the kitchen and spare room, is built on a slab. I suppose to bring water to the washing machine they went up into the attic, but what would somone do if it was an apartment building with no access on the floor above and a slab below? Is there some way to go down through the slab from the kitchen, across and up into the other room? Seems impossible to me, other than by jacking up the house and cutting a groove in the slab.