1930's original tile flooring

[freesolo]

We moved into our house last year , it's a 1930's house and is carpeted throughout, very modern. After visiting a few neighbours I noticed they all had beautiful, original tiled halls I decided to have a look tonight and with the help of my trusty screwdriver I can see beautiful red tiles underneath the carpet! What do I do now? I want to show the tiles but I have barely any disposable income and don't know if i could take up the carpet and get the tiles cleaned myself, any advice?

[morenachos]

We made a lovely discovery after moving in to our Victorian terrace and lifting carpet.

We had them cleaned up, polished, sealed and I just love them!

[JemimaTiggywinkle]

We have original red quarry tiles in the kitchen, they aren’t as fancy as yours though.. just square and from the 50s.

We’re about to cover them in laminate when we have the kitchen done... will be a nice surprise for a future generation hopefully. I don’t like them at all personally.

The previous owner of the house left us some red tile polish.. you could try that.

[PosyWella]

Wow the tiles are gorgeous! 🤩
We found lovely floorboards under the carpet and laminate flooring in our house.

[morenachos]

Reposting - previous post had my insta name on so is now deleted.

We had a lovely surprise when we lifted the beige carpet in the hall of our Victorian terrace after moving in.

They were quite grubby being over 100 years old but we had them polished and sealed.

I think they came up lovely!

[ShowOfHands]

We've just found the original quarry tiles in our 1930s house. Hidden under terrible carpet and a load of levelling compound. Just, why? They're beautiful.

[NewHouseNewMe]

@morenachos divine !!

[RoSEbuds6]

Wow @morenachos how wonderful!

[freesolo]

@morenachos

Reposting - previous post had my insta name on so is now deleted.

We had a lovely surprise when we lifted the beige carpet in the hall of our Victorian terrace after moving in.

They were quite grubby being over 100 years old but we had them polished and sealed.

I think they came up lovely!

These are stunning! I think we'll have just red with a black border from what I can see so far, nothing quite as amazing as yours

[TowandaForever]

@morenachos

You lucky thing!

[Knittedfairies]

Ohh, @morenachos... I'm so jealous!

@freesolo - we, er.., I used something like this

[LoudestCat14]

I'm so jealous of all you who've found tiles! We were praying we'd find the original hallway when we moved into our Victorian semi but alas it was just floorboards.

[CattyCactus]

@freesolo

I haven't lifted the carpet yet but I've taken the carpet tiles out of the porch and found these beauties. Why would anyone put carpet tiles over them??

They’re gorgeous!
Hope you find similar in the hall. 🤞🏻

[freesolo]

So I've lifted a bit....

[freesolo]

@Knittedfairies thank you!

[DailyMaui]

WOW

that looks like a lovely tiled floor you have there. Very jealous, there's nothing nice under my late seventies house floors

[TeenTitan007]

@freesolo - ooh that looks lovely! Do show us more...

[LoudestCat14]

@freesolo

So I've lifted a bit....

Oh, they are going to be stunning! Nice helper, too!

[Mamette]

Oh my god, I am rarely envious but I am swooning with jealousy of you OP and others upthread!

Our house was built in 1979- we pulled up the lino to find bare concrete 🙃

Enjoy your beautiful floors all!

[WhatWouldMaLarkinDo]

OP are you my neighbour?! 😆 We’re in the process of having our hall, stairs and landing redone and planned to get someone in to restore our hall tiles but I might try the cleaner recommended upthread first to see if we can do it ourselves. It’s worth checking with yours if you have any broken tiles, we had a couple where a radiator had been plumbed in but we’ve been able to replace them with some lifted from our porch which we’re having to have re-tiled to make it waterproof.

[PosyWella]

Wow - they look amazing!

[MedusasBadHairDay]

I'm a little jealous! Those are gorgeous!

[Jelandguilty]

They look fab. Placemaking for the grand reveal (please!)

[viques]

@freesolo

So I've lifted a bit....

Glad to see you have called in expert help!

[TinyGlassOwl]

Goodness, they are gorgeous OP! Also placemarking for the photos when you've ripped the whole carpet up

[Geppili]

Love this thread! People covered them with carpet because without CH and double glazing they were freezing. But my god, they are all gorgeous. Please do a big reveal!