Matt Pulls Up Kitchen Floor and I Help Only a Little

First Matt went around and pulled up the edge strips. This is also a look at "before":

This is a good video showing how I helped:

Here I am concerned about being hit in the face. I am slightly more valuable on this job than the videos testify, but, you know, exactly slightly:

"This is my job" - I'm telling you I held that wedge in there SO helpfully:

Lots of layers to deal with - here you can see we have only pulled up the first layer of parquet flooring. There are still more layers (linoleum and vinyl) to pull up after that:

I'm just giving you the play-by-play here!

He found the seam!

And with that we pulled the mower inside again to call it quits for the day.

A few days later, he went to work on the rest of the floor and this is what he found underneath - oak!
However, it is likely too damaged to refinish, we will see about replacing some of the wood, or just covering it all with new flooring: