Roy,
I am about to start working on a house with tongue and groove dating back to the late 17th century at a home called little England, which is among the earliest Georgian homes in America of its size and scale. The main house was built in 1716, but I think the kitchen, with tongue and groove flooring is precisely as old as when you suggest the first flooring was cut.
I did work on square edge pine flooring at Fosters Castle which was built in the early 1660's. this house is said to be the second oldest brick home in Virginia. We reinstalled reinstalled and finished flooring that was 350 years old. What is your source for the 1683 year? And is that when the tongue and groove cutters were said to be invented?
I am about to start working on a house with tongue and groove dating back to the late 17th century at a home called little England, which is among the earliest Georgian homes in America of its size and scale. The main house was built in 1716, but I think the kitchen, with tongue and groove flooring is precisely as old as when you suggest the first flooring was cut.
I did work on square edge pine flooring at Fosters Castle which was built in the early 1660's. this house is said to be the second oldest brick home in Virginia. We reinstalled reinstalled and finished flooring that was 350 years old. What is your source for the 1683 year? And is that when the tongue and groove cutters were said to be invented?