I wanted to redo my floor and discovered another floor under it, does anybody have an idea from which year it could be (ghent)?

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1. Good chances it’s the original one.

2. Between 1950 and 1960.

3. The year your house was built

4. De joere stillekes.

5. looks Roman…

6. Chances are there isn’t a floor foundation underneath that old one. These type of cement tiles were originally placed in plain old zavel.

7. Free new floor!

8. Looks much nicer than the one you removed lol

9. Can’t tell the year but I do know that that is an expensive floor. There are several merchants that will buy these tiles from you. Do not destroy!!

10. No idea, but that looks stunning!

11. My best guess would be 200 B.C.

12. Lovely floor. If possible keep it🙂

13. Looks phoenicain? Call a museum and have them excavate it.

14. https://nl.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Carreau_ciment

    Invented in France in 1850. They still make em. So like the other redittor said, when was your house built? I would guess slightly over a 100 years old.
    It is super easy to recuperate tiles that are lain in sand. You just pull them up. Then add underfloor and put them back down.

15. 1910-1920

16. Roman empire

17. I have a similarly patterned floor in my house, mine it’s from early 1900’s. Looks great btw!

18. My floor looks like that, similar pattern, different colors.
    It’s from 1850.

19. Cement tiles, mostly made during the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Very expensive these days. If you dont want them, be careful when you take them out, some people would pay alot for those tiles

20. Brussels has something called https://monument.heritage.brussels/ where you can find most of the time historical information about a building in which you live. Perhaps Flanders—or Gent— has the same sort of thing.

21. No idea what year it’s from but it’s really pretty!

22. Re-uses them!

    remove the zavel below (sand)

    install underfloor heating!!!!

    put insulation!

23. Thanks all for the replies! According to the kadaster the house was built between 1919 and 1930, considering the floor is laying on zavel like some of you suggested, it is most likely the original floor and just as old. As for what’s going to happen with the tiles… Obviously they’re too pretty to end up on a containerpark, not sure what i’m going to do with them right now but i’ll definitely keep them stored somewhere.

    I’m just puzzled why one of the previous owners decided to ‘renovate’ it like this… Was a fun discovery though and i’m surprised the floor held this well

24. We tried to carefully tear out our ancient floor as well. But don’t expect it to be easy, we gave up any tossed it all in the container

25. Clearly you stumbled upon an ancient Roman villa.

26. Typical floor from the Roman ERA. Possibly covered afterwards by the Belgians, the bravest people according the Romans, after they evicted them from their territory!

27. Keep on digging. There might be another one

28. Cementtegels in Gent, vanaf 1840.