Reclaimed parquet pine flooring

[LittleEsme]

I've found a supply of parquet flooring at about £10 a square metre and, given my ever dwindling budget, it seems very appealing.

It does have adhesive on the underneath though. I'm not too concerned with the top - that can be sanded down (I believe) but has anyone bought a reclaimed wood floor and successfully re-laid it? How did you remove the adhesive?

I researched on YouTube it looks like time intensive hard graft so didn't get it in the end.

I salvaged some and gave it away, far too expensive to prep it.

Aaahhh no, really?!

Gutted!

same with re claimed casts iron radiators.
unless you've got the patience of a saint and want to DIY

Yes, not as bad as I'd feared. Really glad we did it.

@SerendipitySunshine Can you tell me more? These are pine, so in hindsight, won't they be too soft?

How did you shift the adhesive? We're you able to do it yourself?

We bought a massive pile of reclaimed dark wood parquet that had been stripped out of an old house and laid most of our apartment with it. They’re domino sized pieces and we did the whole thing ourselves - concrete sealing, cork underlay, cutting / removing old cement / laying the tiles, sanding and oiling. It looks amazing but was a lot of work!

Here it is.

You can remove the adhesive but you need a power tool if it's not going to take you an enormous amount of time. Like a dewalt scraper blade, and the tool it fits onto. If you can borrow these rather than buy it's more cost effective obviously. Have you a tool library near you?
Otherwise, it's just firewood really.

Ours had levelling compound stuck to the so we used an angle grinder to get it off. It was a long job but worth it.