12-01-2006, 12:12 PM
I did a kitchen and a hallway. Several layers of sheet linoleum under carpet. Getting the black goo you describe off was the biggest problem. I scraped with the grain to get most of it off and then paid handsomely to the floor refinisher for multiple sanding disks, The result after a few coats of polyurethane varnish was awesome. I used one of those wax furniture touchup sticks to fill the holes left by the carpet tacks - that took more than a little while but with careful color selection, it wasn't noticible.