Mike's Manse

[Jarre]

Your busy busy mike, be carefull with the tiles, in the 60 & 70's they used Marley floor tiles on the floors, these contain white asbestos (chrysolite) its only harmful if they become dust. if the adhesive is black then its a bitumen type adhesive if your going to put any new floor down its recommended to use a latex levelling compound. Glad you didn't have to do anything with teh flue, if its a none metal flue thats been there for years it is most likely a cement/asbestos based flu fine left insitu but has to be removed to special tip if changed.

Whose idea it was to stick down vinyl wants poking up the ass with a pointy stick (metaphorically not in reality as that would be really stoopid) removing them was a pain combination of scraper plus heat gun for the more stubborn ones then you're left with a very stick floor if I stood still when I moved I left my slippers behind. I was imagining the news skeleton of old man found bonded to floor.

Well a combination of turps and a belt sander was needed to get rid of the glue I have some lino (vinyl flooring to put down, had it for years) or I may just varnish the boards).

Kitchen looks like a bomb hit it and dust everywhere so a lot of cleaning needed.