" Well we're back in the governor's mansion now. Last week the First Lady, Roxanne Gilmore, gave us the tour and of course they were moving out. Now that the whole place is empty you can really get a sense of the scale of this house. Behind me is the schedule sign. They intend to be back in here in 6 months and it's really important for the contractor that, you know, keep his end of the bargain in terms of getting all this work done. And they really have started. They really have started in earnest. I wanted to point out some of the precautions that are being taken to protect some of the finishes. This is the blue tape which is very easy To peel off and it doesn't have much of that gum that sometimes ruins wood work. But on the floors, we have something called Dura Runner from this protective products company. And here we've got oak parquet floors in a herring bone. This may be a century old. They're being preserved and restored. But this product, this Dura Runner, has been put down throughout the first floor to make sure that there isn't any damage done to it. You can spill water on it apparently it's, it's quite well and it's even quite durable. One of the problems with the parquet floor that we encountered is squeaking and movement and last week they got started on doing some of the, well, very special processes that are gonna help to balance out the squeaking and make the floor work more effectively. Take a look."

" Joining us are Fred Ecker and his group from Tide Water Preservation."

" Ok so the situation here is that we've got a parquet floor from 1906 that was laid on top of the 1813 original southern pine floors and we've got a lot of patching to do and then squeaking issues right?"

" Right."

" What's he doing right now?"

" Well this had been the location of a receptacle that had been installed at a later date--"

" -Yes."

" -The new receptacle is gonna be installed in the baseboards so he's making a patch of some hard pine to replace the sub floor--"

" -Yes."

" -and then ultimately he'll relay the parquet flooring infront of the dutch men on top."

" The hole as well as the patch have been routed out so that you've got like a lap joint contingency--"

" -Right--"

" -around all four sides."

" Yes?"

" What of glue is that he's using?"

" He's using one of the adhesives that we're using to actually inject down below--"

" -Yes?"

" -to create a, to stop a squeaking problem in the floor itself."

" Ok."

" Now one of the objectives with the repair job here is to make sure that it's a reversible-- situation right?"

" That's, that's correct."

" So that if in the future, the house is 300 years old and another restoration attempt is made that wants to go back to the original 1813 pine floor, it would be easy to remove the parquet. "

" That's right--"

" -And--"

" -that's why we're using acrylic adhesives that have been formulated just for this project."

" Right."

" Tap, tap, tap and you're back in place. Now, you've got a mock up over here don't you Fred that explains--"

" -Yes."

" -what I was just referring to in terms of reversibility."

" This is a, we, we tested a number of acrylics and we put a, put a sample together of some old hard pine flooring very similar to what's here--"

" -Yes."

" -and samples of the original parquet flooring which we removed from the hallway next door--"

" -Right. And what, what's being done in this process below our feet is an injecting process where holes have been drilled and the actual epoxy can be forced in with a gun."

" Right and actually it's an acrylic adhesive again. Again ensuring reversibility and what we were looking for was flow, which you can see here we had good flow. This piece was removed from there. Adhesive qualities, minimal adhesive quality to the original flooring. Just pull the finish off but good adhesive quality to the oak itself."

" Ok it'll hold on to the oak keep it from squeaking or loosening up. But if it ever needs to be removed from the pine that will be easy. Tell me about what he's doing downstairs though."

" Downstairs we've injected ports with a drill in the, within the tongue section of the flooring."

" What you mean is you've drilled small eighth of an inch diameter holes."

" That's right."

" Yes."

" And with a bulk-loading caulk gun basically we're injecting this adhesive through the groove but again not far enough to create a, a hole in the surface."

" Right, so that if, again, if it ever wants to be reversed, they wouldn't find a bunch of holes--"

" -Right--"

" -in the surface of the original--"

" That's correct."

" -material."

" And of course almost every room in the mansion has holes such as what we have over here where radiators, pipes and all sorts of other things were installed so there's a quite a bit if this repair work to be done. We'll stay in touch with you Fred."

" Alright. Thank you sir."