horray for hardwood
we are back! let's see ... Tuesday we tried to continue laying floor. yes, tried. we got maybe 10 SF or so down and gave up ... the stupid retardo mallet kept coming apart. piece of junk. Home Depot was already closed, so we'd have to exchange it later in the week. Wednesday evening we traveled north to Chrissy's parents house for Thanksgiving. while there I went to the local Home Depot and they gave me a new mallet from another package. i tried to get them to let me buy the mallet from another nailer that is the type i like better ... they didn't bite though ... so we're stuck with the chinsy Porta-nailer mallet.After much enjoyable eating and relaxing, we unfortunately had to leave
on Saturday morning to resume our house projects. With the driving, time change, lunch, and waking up later than planned ... we didn't really get started until around 1. We got some floor down before Chrissy's brother and his fiancee arrived to help. Chrissy and Kim began painting our bedroom. There was some random blue paint we found in the house that we thought would work well as a primer. They got the whole room taped and primed by late afternoon. Michael and i kept going on the floors. With a couple hours of work after dinner, we had the floor to the point where we were just past the doors separating the living and dining room.that evening, we also found in our mail ... a response from the previous owners on the floor issue. in response to our thorough, courteous letter ... we got a two paragraph insult back. they basically acused us of being horrible people. the letter was of very poor taste and was nothing but an attack on us as people. needless to say, they don't want to help defray the extra costs and time we are incurring. so, now we need to think about what we want to do. do we really want to try to recoup some of our money in small claims court?? of course, that pretty much bummed us out for the rest of the night. watching Batman Begins again helped a little bit ... i forgot how good that movie was.
Michael and Kim went home after lunch
Sunday and we headed to the airport to pick up my mom returning from Florida (she drove my grandparents down for the winter). My brother Jim and his family were returning from Thanksgiving in Kentucky, so stopped by and picked up Mom to take her the rest of the way. After that, we were back at it. By about 10 tonight, we had the dining room 99.9% finished! Just a few trim-out pieces to go and creating the transition into the kitchen. At this point, we think we have around 330-340 SF down. That is around half of the downstairs. So, we're making pretty decent progress. I plan on taking a day off work this week to get a big chunk done ... with a goal of completing next weekend or early the week after. If things go smoothly, that may be do-able -- providing my blisters don't get much worse :-)oh, and we've decided this is what happens when you work on your home remodeling projects for too long. so be careful out there when you work on your own projects.
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 11:46 PM
3 Comments:
The dining room looks great. Hopefully it has just the right amount of character.
The dining room really does look nice. That's what's nice about construction. you can work and then look back and say "YEAH! That does look really good!" You don't get that w/ many other professions (teaching, ministry, etc)
Wow! I'm impressed that you got the dining room finished. You really have kept at it. Looks great, too.
Think of the many years of satisfaction, enjoying the fruit of your hard work.
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