Water-damaged parquet floor

ed110220

After buying my house I lifted the horribly dirty cream carpet in the sitting room and dining room to find a beautiful original 1940s parquet floor. Strangely, neither the estate agent or the sellers had mentioned it - surely an oversight on their part!

Anyway, it's mostly in pretty good condition but in the dining room at some point in the past water has leaked from the central heating system and stained some of the blocks. It's obviously old damage as you can see the staining on the wall above under 1970s/80s wallpaper so not an ongoing problem with damp.

Does anyone know if the water staining is superficial and can it be removed?

diable

You might be able to sand down the floor which may remove some of the staining.

Leif

ed110220 wrote: »

After buying my house I lifted the horribly dirty cream carpet in the sitting room and dining room to find a beautiful original 1940s parquet floor. Strangely, neither the estate agent or the sellers had mentioned it - surely an oversight on their part!

Same here, the estate agent missed it, and the Home Buyers Report missed it, which says a lot for the HBR i.e. useless. In my case I lifted the parquet, as I needed access to the screed so that builders could install new pipes.

How bad/noticeable is the staining? What colour is the floor? I'm assuming a dark mahogany colour.

ed110220

Here's a photo of the floor as it is immediately after the carpet was removed:



and here's a photo of the water damage. It looks worse in the photo than it does to the eye, I think.