a big pile of wood
last night we headed downtown to our local friendly Lumber Liquidators to order our new hardwood floors (in the middle of the horrid storms). tonight, the massive pile of wood was delivered along with some snow! the mudroom looks like a warehouse. there are some rough pieces (machine burns, open knots, etc.) and quite a few short pieces (less than 2'-0"), but in general we are happy with the condition of the el-cheapo wood. they had a picture at the store of a floor put down using the same material ... it looked simply unbelievable. i only hope our floor looks close to that good. also got some good news last night, my uncle and cousin volunteered to come down and help lay the floor on saturday! my uncle Wil (the one we went to the Grand Canyon with this summer) laid a bunch of hardwood at his house, so an experienced teacher will really help me a lot. it should also be a lot of fun working with them also.also tonight, we removed all the old hardwood from the dining room (the last of the old hardwood) and pulled nails from about 3/4 of the floor (forgot the camera, so no pics today of the old floor or pile of wood). tomorrow we'll finish that and start the final prep work for laying new hardwood (cleaning and shellacing). i picked up some supplies for the shellacing and flooring Monday, including exchanging our ShopVac. ours has always had some sort of problem in the motor. after running it for a few minutes it would start to smell awful, like the motor was burning itself up. ran the new one tonight for probably 1/2 hour straight with no issues, nice. we are dreaming of the day, hopefully in about a month, where we can LIVE in the house and not have muddy boogers (from all the dust).
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 11:19 PM
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