For shame!! Let's catch up, shall we? I have a bathroom and a wood floor post for you! But, since the photos for the bath are not quite "blog-ready" – let's cover the floor first...
We had this:
when we moved in; 12-15 boxes of pre-finished cherry hardwood (about 350 sq ft). In the house, ready to be installed. So this weekend we installed it in the hallway on the second floor.
Saturday we had help from Nick's stepdad Dave, who, as usual, was pretty much a rockstar. First we put down the underlayment...
Then the first row had to be nailed in by hand.
Getting started was the hardest part...
Till we got to this...
I knew this part would be tricky... and after much debating...
We figured it out...
More nailing, (and Genny Cream Ale) and by 8:30 pm we had....
Siiiigh, not bad for 12 hours... I guess... On to Sunday...
Sunday Meg and Paul came to help... and thanks to them, despite feeling like we'd both run a marathon, we were able to soldier on!
Until finally I turned around and saw Cole sitting in the middle of the finished part of the floor playing with his toys, and I said, "Meg!! Your son is actually sitting on the floor of my second floor playing!"
That was pretty cool...
So by the end of Sunday... we had actually [almost] finished the whole hallway...
Finished enough to take the rented nailer back at least!! Some last touches with our pneumatic nailer and we can put a bow on this baby... I'm pretty pleased with it... Which is good, because this might be the most extreme form of "nesting" known to man...
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