Reclaimed parquet flooring

[BettyBoblin]

I have the chance if buying some old parquet flooring reclaimed from a school at a bargain price. Problem is, we really can't afford to pay anyone else to clean it up and fit it. Has anyone tried to do this themselves? Worth it or a bit of a nightmare?

A friend bought reclaimed parquet, cleaned it up and paid someone to fit it. I believe the fitting is a specialist job. The fitter told her some of it wasn't clean enough so she was frantically doing more cleaning as he was then fitting it! It looks lovely though.

If it's worth it, how about buying it, cleaning it up and storing it until you can afford to have it fitted?

We did this. Paid £600 for a load of oak parquet from an old school and my husband laid it all in the hall, dining room and lounge. It took him six months and he hated it after the first square yard. We didn't clean the old bitumen off just laid it on top of more and then sanded it once we had finished and varnished it. It looked amazing, we had a double boarder around the edge and was laid in a herringbone style. I loved it though and it was very practical with small children.