This is our floor as of Friday morning. The guys came to start on Wednesday morning around 10am. After 2 hours of attempting to pull op the wood, they announced they were off to lunch. Also that they couldn't pull up the wood without pulling up pieces of the concrete floor as well. So they were going to get a new blade for their skill saw, chop up the floor and then water it. he idea was that this would loosen the glue and they could pull up the boards the next day. Thus the wood sticking tot he floor in places and many small pieces of wood everywhere. Anyway after lunch they spent another hour sawing and watering before leaving at 2.Friday they did manage to pull up the floor int he living room and dining room. Then they put down an epoxy to fill in and holes they'd made in the slab and help the glue stick better or something. Then they had to let it dry, so off they went. 8am - 2pm. Saturday back at 8am and the whole living room laid. We had high hopes they could just finish it out, but one of the guys son had a baseball game so they finished up around 3pm. Right now we can't walk on the floor and they haven't put down the quarter round and it's apparently all held together with painters tape anyway. Ahhh Well, soon all will be done.
House projects are so much fun:-)
To follow the progress go to my photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsayblake10607/OurLivingRoomFloor#
3 comments:
I hate home projects. They really take 3 times as long to do no matter what the estimate is. And it really is interesting all the weird little ways to do things. Who would of thought to water a wooden floor? Just another odd thing. By the way, you have to service your heater yearly too or it might just not work one day, and clean your vents out or your heater just pushes dust around. And the heater has a filter that should be changed monthly.
And theres a food trap in your dishwasher, belt in your dryer, (oh and the dryer can move and kink the vent which pushes air outside then your cloths take longer to dry) Oh, and you have to vacuum off the coils in the bottom of your fridge. They get covered in dust and that interferes with how it cools. All should be done yearly.
And I always tell my friends to make sure they have had an inspection to make sure they have enough insulation to save on heating bills.
That's about it unless you have wooden fences, trim, and an automatic sprinkler.
well, crap, I have two of those and after the floor I won't be able to afford anyone to do anything, so I guess we'll start on the ones that I can do. How do you vacuum under a fridge?
Either your coolent coils are located under it with a front part that comes off or they are behind. And you just pop off the cover and vacuum the dust. I really don't do it every year. Just every few years. And you would not believe the food that somehow gets underneath and behind it.
Just a note that if, note I said if, you fridge seems not to be cooling as well as it used to. Move it and find the coils. Otherwise you can be lazy and put it off till later. I would change your heater filter though, it saves you money on heating bills and it is almost winter
(smile)
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