Yesterday evening saw (can evenings see?) a flurry of activity in the kitchen/dining room as preparations for the new floor continued. On hands and knees, I pulled out carpet pad staples, checked for loose sub-flooring nails, and finished trimming the carpet pad back to the hallway. Oh, and dropped a pile of money at Ye Olde Home Depot for the Pergo flooring and related materials.
Tonight (this week will be a busy week), after Bible study, I'll be laying down the sheets of luann to level the floor, and rebuilding a small section of the sub-floor by the sliding glass door. This will start immediately after I run 30 big screws into the floor to eliminate the squeaks-n-creaks.
I'm surprised at how quickly this part of the kitchen remodel is moving along. Maybe it's because I expected it to take longer, and maybe it's because this is really not the hardest part of the job. Who knows. I'm just glad that the floor will be done soon!
Interestingly enough, the dog is a bit wary of the floor part of the remodel. She was OK with me ripping down walls in the bathroom and bedrooms, ceilings and cabinets in the kitchen, and untold hours of painting, but the bare floor in the dining room is *weird* to her. She cannot lay comfortably in front of the sliding glass door (on the heat vent) and perhaps that is the issue. the bare floors also make it quite evident that she needs ner claws trimmed more often -- clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click clickety-click.
Posted by MEK at January 21, 2004 09:29 AM