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We felt a little guilty pulling up the porch flooring which appeared to be fir tongue and groove plank flooring. Based on the fact they were nailed down with the very old style square head nails, we think it was probably the original boards. At first, for some reason we can’t quite wrap our heads around now we were originally going to use Trex or some other kind of composite deck flooring to withstand the weather. But it’s ridiculously expensive and still looks like plastic. Then we thought, well this wood floor has held up just fine (the rotting and sagging was mostly in the joists underneath), that we decided to recreate the old style with tongue and groove hardwoods. Where as the Trex would have cost nearly $1000, we got the perfect amount of reused Maple flooring for $80, thanks the credit at the ReStore we had from bringing in the old patch of fir floors when we remodeled the main floor. Isn’t it beautiful? To make the stuff last even longer than the boards we took up, we put a sealer used on wooden boats to coat the groove and underside before we installed them.