The rest of the house has stunning old hardwood floors. When we bought the house the floors were covered with thick ugly carpets. The owners told us that the original wood floor was intact so we ripped up the carpet and had the floors done. Beautiful!

So now it's time to attack the ugly kitchen. We removed a small hallway segment and ran into the problem with the staples. Seems like the stapler person really loved his job as there are staples about every 4".

I can't imagine trying to remove the staples from the main part of the kitchen. Both my wife and I are no spring chickens.

Getting the various sub flooring up was reasonable but we are currently defeated by the staples. I'm concerned that they would damage a sander.

Burt