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--- 2595561
Anons, my place has this hideous linoleum floor in the kitchen, and the ceiling leaks

Noticed a tile peeling up and I found fucking hardwood floor underneath

Now the question stands, do I rip the rest of this up? Or get some scrap linoleum to protect this with till the ceiling/roof is fixed?
--- 2595597
Apparently it was trendy back in the day to cover hardwood floors with shitnoleum. You may very well have complete hardwood flooring.
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>>2595561 (OP)
Actual real linoleum or vinyl?
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>>2595561 (OP)
>and the ceiling leaks
maybe get that fixed 1st.
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>>2595610
And thus I shall place down a piece of mismatched shitnoleum 

>>2595597
Nice

>>2595599
I'm not an expert so here's a pic of the tile prior to me ripping the rest of it up. I believe it's linoleum though
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>>2595612
Real genuine linoleum is actually really fascinating stuff, very robust and bacterially resistant since it's made from linseed oil, cork, limesone and burlap.
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>>2595617
h-uh
I learned something on 4chan today
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>>2595612
the gray stuff could be paper but it can be loose Asbestos,

 have it tested before you tear it down since scraping that off releases huge amounts of fibers.

If its asbestos you need to seal everything with foil, cut the tiles with a utility knife and spray them whit water.
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>>2595561 (OP)
 Ceiling leaks are due to an amateur drilling through PVC pipes where the old emersion heater tanks were . Or tiles being stolen off roofs this is very common with empty properties then the person selling the house does a temporary fix .
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>>2595597
My Meemaw and Pawpaw bought a beautiful house built in 1924 and one of the hallways had exactly this, shitty poopoo garbage on top of original nice as fuck hardwood. Currently in the process of removing the adhesive from floor and the poopoo wood paneling from the walls. boomers really loved ruining homes in every way possible.
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>>2597701
It was harder to keep up with wooden floors in the old days. Synthetic flooring like linoleum looked "modern" and was a lot less work.