Kitchen Remodel #3

The old oak flooring has to go - not because it's not good wood, but because we can't get the remnants of the linoleum and glue off of it - and because there are nails that have to be dug out every 8 inches or so.  We wouldn't be able to resurrect it in the end.  Shucks.

Here are pieces of hardwood oak that we took out. 

This is when we were just beginning.  I cut a kerf down the middle of one of the planks in the middle of the floor so we had something to dig into to pry up.  After the first plank, it came up easily. 

So now we're down to 1 by 8 diagonal planking subfloor, typical in the late 50's.

We put some old carpet down to keep the rats out.