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Black tar like substance

Posted by Lettie Wilkes, on
We are stripping down the stairs in the hallway down to the bare wood and now we have removed the paint there is a black tar like substance underneath which goes sticky when heated with a hot air gun. Does anyone know what it is. Lettie

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