Looking for advice. Old home woes: re-doing our kitchen…
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Looking for advice. Old home woes: re-doing our kitchen floors
For context: I am a homeowner of 6 years and I'd consider myself a 6/10 on the handy-ness scale.
My husband and I bought a historic home (built in 1790) about 2 years ago. About a year after the sale we started to notice the ceramic tiles of the kitchen floor beginning to crack. Not just from high impact like from a heavy pan being dropped - cracking in half underfoot from normal foot traffic! In the summertime if we dare walk barefoot, some tiles will stick to the bottom of your feet and come completely detached from the mortar. Recently we found a few extra boxes of the tiles in our basement and were horrified to find that they are for WALLS only. We have runners covering the floor now as a temporary measure, but we know we need to redo the floors.
Our concerns with the kitchen flooring are related to the age of the house. We have been told that the old lumber beams in the basement eventually need to be reinforced. I know all homes expand and contract over time but I wonder if because of the beams, our kitchen floors will have too much movement to make tile a good option. I'm sure the logical answer is to take care of the structural repairs first, but the cost for structural renovations is enormous and we need a functional kitchen floor long before we will be able to get the beams done.
I know LVP would be an easy, attractive and practical option, but it feels sacrilegious to install them in a 250 year old house, lol. We also looked into cork flooring for the flexibility factor, but it seems the jury is out on how durable those can be.
I'm hoping for advice from anyone experienced in very old home renovations. Can the subfloor be reinforced in such a way to adequately support tile flooring, despite possibly extra movement from the beams below? Are there other considerations I haven't mentioned here? Thanks in advance.
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For context: I am a homeowner of 6 years and I'd consider myself a 6/10 on the handy-ness scale.
My husband and I bought a historic home (built in 1790) about 2 years ago. About a year after the sale we started to notice the ceramic tiles of the kitchen floor beginning to crack. Not just from high impact like from a heavy pan being dropped - cracking in half underfoot from normal foot traffic! In the summertime if we dare walk barefoot, some tiles will stick to the bottom of your feet and come completely detached from the mortar. Recently we found a few extra boxes of the tiles in our basement and were horrified to find that they are for WALLS only. We have runners covering the floor now as a temporary measure, but we know we need to redo the floors.
Our concerns with the kitchen flooring are related to the age of the house. We have been told that the old lumber beams in the basement eventually need to be reinforced. I know all homes expand and contract over time but I wonder if because of the beams, our kitchen floors will have too much movement to make tile a good option. I'm sure the logical answer is to take care of the structural repairs first, but the cost for structural renovations is enormous and we need a functional kitchen floor long before we will be able to get the beams done.
I know LVP would be an easy, attractive and practical option, but it feels sacrilegious to install them in a 250 year old house, lol. We also looked into cork flooring for the flexibility factor, but it seems the jury is out on how durable those can be.
I'm hoping for advice from anyone experienced in very old home renovations. Can the subfloor be reinforced in such a way to adequately support tile flooring, despite possibly extra movement from the beams below? Are there other considerations I haven't mentioned here? Thanks in advance.
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