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I just ripped my sock on a nail

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Postby waldojeffers1 » Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:08 pm

I live in an old townhouse, a building that is at least 130 years old and has been subject to who knows how many repairs and remodelings in that time, but I know it was owned by a woman for several decades who was more or less confined to the first floor because she wasn't able to climb the stairs anymore, so the upper flights were basically vacant until she passed away and my current landlord grabbed the building

some of the floors were redone before we moved in but in the living room and adjacent hallway we have these semi-loose floorboards that are vibrating every time you walk across them, slowly but surely pushing the nails up at the edges until they stick out enough to become potentially dangerous. so far we've managed not to get any nasty cuts in our feet in this apartment but I have had a few pairs of socks be destroyed by getting snagged on these, icnluding one a couple minutes ago which is why I'm making the thread

it's useless to try to hammer the nails back in since they are already bent, so when one of them becomes a consistent problem I usually just rip it out of the floor with pliers. this of course further loosens the board and makes sure that the nail(s) at the opposite end will be pushed up a few weeks or months later. I think by the time our lease is up we will just have loose boards in here with no nails left

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